A Escrava Isaura 5.139 · 5.139

The decision is made and immediate — 'acompanha-me até lá', come with me. Malvina is done weeping and done waiting; she moves. That she asks her brother to come is not weakness but strategy, as she will explain: she wants a witness and a bulwark. The wronged wife is organizing her confrontation.

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