Dom Casmurro 3.41 · 3.41

Against insinuation Dona Glória sets observation. 'Tenho visto os pequenos brincando' — I have seen the children playing. Where José Dias trafficked in whispers and corners, she offers what she has actually watched with her own eyes, and her word is 'brincando', playing — the innocent counterpart to his 'segredinhos'. Note the courteous 'Sr. José Dias'; she keeps her formality even in disagreement, a decent woman meeting a slippery man on the only ground she trusts, the plain evidence of the everyday.

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