The castle crumbles
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como se ali se esmoronasse de repente todo o sonhado castello de suas venturas conjugaes.
as if there suddenly crumbled the whole dreamed-of castle of her wedded happiness.
The grand image of ruin: her married happiness was a 'castello,' a castle — and one only 'sonhado,' dreamed, never quite real — that 'esmoronasse de repente,' crumbles all at once. The castle-in-the-air, built on trust in a man who never deserved it, collapses in the instant she understands him. Malvina loses not a hope but an illusion, which hurts as much.
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