Into the whirl of the rooms
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Depois offerecendo um braço a Elvira e outro ao senhor Anselmo, os vae conduzindo para as salas interiores, por onde já turbilhona a mais numerosa e brilhante sociedade.
Then, offering one arm to Elvira and the other to Senhor Anselmo, he leads them into the inner rooms, through which the most numerous and brilliant society is already swirling.
Álvaro sweeps them 'para as salas interiores', into the inner rooms, the crowded heart of the ball where 'turbilhona a mais numerosa e brilhante sociedade' — the most numerous and brilliant society swirls. The verb 'turbilhona', whirls like a whirlwind, catches the giddy motion of the crowd, and into that vortex he carries the two people who have spent months at its edges, unseen. The image is almost of a current pulling them under: from the quiet of the chácara to the swirl of Recife's elite in a single evening. Álvaro means it as their triumphant entry into the world; the reader sees the fugitives drawn into the densest possible concentration of eyes. The chapter has moved, step by step, from the empty riverbank to this crowded, glittering vortex — the maximum exposure, arranged by love.
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