Hypothetical question about coming
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Suponha você que está no seminário e recebe a notícia de que eu vou morrer...— Não diga isso!—... Ou que me mato de saudades, se você não vier logo, e sua mãe não quiser que você venha, diga -me, você vem?— Venho.— Contra a ordem de sua mãe?— Contra a ordem de mamãe.
Suppose you are in the seminary and receive the news that I am going to die... — Don't say that! — ... Or that I kill myself of longing, if you don't come soon, and your mother doesn't want you to come, tell me, do you come? — I come. — Against your mother's order? — Against mom's order.
The narrator poses a hypothetical scenario to test the other's devotion.
The narrator tests the other's loyalty by asking if he would come despite his mother's wishes, and receives a positive answer.
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