Settle that slave's fate
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— Dê um destino qualquer a essa escrava, a cujos pés o senhor costuma vilmente prostrar-se:
'Give some disposition or other to that slave-woman, at whose feet you are wont so basely to grovel:'
The demand, at last, and its cruelty is doubled. Malvina names Isaura only as 'essa escrava,' refusing her a name; and she throws Leôncio's grovelling at Isaura's feet in his face. Two people are diminished at once — the rival and the husband.
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