Then what makes you sad?
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— Então o que é que te faz triste?
"Then what is it that makes you sad?"
Chapter V. Cecília and Isabel talk — teasing banter that circles a real sadness in Cecília she cannot explain.
Isabel keeps pressing, and her plain question is the one Cecília cannot answer — which is why Alencar gives it the last word of the paragraph. The scene has quietly become an interrogation of a feeling neither girl can yet see the shape of.
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