Emma was the head of the family was, as already said, its tyrant. Uncles, cousins ​​and nephews comply with their orders, they respected their whims. This dominion over souls not explain enough so for economic reasons, but certainly these influenced enough. All Valcárcel were poor. The fecundity of the race was famous in the province of females gave birth Valcárcel much, and were not going in behind the men who were joining the family by legitimate marriage. Breed a lot and not wanting to work, this seemed to be the motto of that lineage. Among all Valcárcel had not been more industrious man in the century Emma’s father, the lawyer, who was also in marriage, less prolific than their relatives. It has been said that Emma was an only child, and therefore universal heir romantic attorney and flutist. But the advantage of the savings came to her daughter jurist somewhat diminished. It seems that the chastity of D. Valcárcel Diego was not as extreme as previously thought, the true virtue had always been to prudence and secrecy, knowing that the bad example and scandal are the most formidable enemies of well-organized societies, and he saw that not could be kept in chaste widowhood, among maids seduce the girls house and her daughter, and, perhaps, as the temptation had pointed out several times to the ear, the respectable customers, helpless ladies who came to his office demanding legal and moral light, as he said, between this and the regulation of vice, the inevitable expansion of lean meat, chose the latter, organized with wise and prudent distribution of secret service Aphrodite, as he put it well. And there, outside the town, surrounding villages where he often took care of the farm business itself and others, came to be, forgive the truth, Orchamus-Pater Abraham a great nation of irresponsible natural children, many adulterous. Neither his conscience nor the priest who confessed, who in life had helped him at times to avoid scandal, and some embarrassing confessions threats by some sinful, he consented, when the rush of making a will, leaving in complete disregard certain obligations of the blood, and as he could, keeping the formal pretenses were the case, send left here and there, which decreased in all that the law of inheritance of Emma consented