To gain their perverse ends
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que não hesitam em perturbar o socego da casa dos outros para conseguir seos fins perversos...
'who do not scruple to disturb the peace of other people's homes to gain their perverse ends...'
He paints Henrique as a schemer with 'fins perversos,' perverse designs — a rich accusation from the actual predator of the house. The scene's irony is total: each man sees clearly the other's baseness and is blind to his own.
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