Alone at last
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As escravas retirárão-se todas do salão, ficando só Isaura,
The slave-women all withdrew from the hall, leaving only Isaura,
The room empties, and the chapter shifts key — from the sharp comedy of the quarrel to a long, painterly stillness. The solitude Isaura asked for arrives, and with it the narrator's tenderest attention. What follows is one of the book's set-piece portraits: the beautiful slave alone at her wheel.
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