She looks at the empty cabin
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Logo que seu pai ergueu-se, Cecília recolheu ao seu quarto, e ajoelhando diante do crucifixo, fez a sua oração. Depois, erguendo-se, foi levantar um canto da cortina da janela e olhar a cabana que se erguia na ponta do rochedo, e estava deserta e solitária.
As soon as her father rose, Cecília retired to her room and, kneeling before the crucifix, said her prayer. Then, rising, she went to lift a corner of the window-curtain and look at the cabin that rose on the point of the crag, and stood empty and solitary.
As soon as her father rose, Cecília retired to her room and, kneeling before the crucifix, said her prayer. Then, rising, she went to lift a corner of the window-curtain and look at the cabin that rose on the point of the crag, and stood empty and solitary.
Her first act alone is to look for Peri's hut — and find it dark. The empty cabin is her fear made visible: the devoted Indian gone, perhaps forever, because of her jest.
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