A Escrava Isaura 7.243 · 7.243

The interior calculation continues: 'a occasião não pode ser mais favoravel,' the moment could not be more favourable. Leôncio thinks like a hunter reading his chance — alone, unguarded, no witnesses. The chill of the chapter's climax is precisely this coolness: no passion drives him here, only opportunity, weighed and taken.

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