A Escrava Isaura 8.86 · 8.86

The mask drops in the narrator's diagnosis: Leôncio behaves as a man 'definitivamente resolvido a fazer o que quizesse' — definitively resolved to do exactly as he wished. Every evasion has been cover for a will already fixed. The word 'definitivamente' seals it: there was never a decision pending, only a decision hidden.

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