A Escrava Isaura 6.179 · 6.179

'Tergiversações' — shufflings, evasions: the narrator names Leôncio's maneuvering for what it is, and lets his own wife see through it. Malvina's decency is the story's proof that the refusal is not necessity but choice.

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