He was coming to the balcony with doña Pepita to see the sunrise.

The don and the doña nonchalantly sipped their drinks, saying nothing.

You see, doña Bernarda, you suffered too much with don Ramón.

I've talked to them-andtalked-butthey say nothing except 'Si, doña.'

Even poor doña Pepa hitched around in her armchair and applauded.

This gentleman is the son of your friend, doña Bernarda.

I'm mighty well satisfied, doña Bernarda, that we should be related through our children.

If that isn't doña Pepita's place, at least we'll find out where we are.

But in the end they weary a fellow, doña Bernarda, the old man said sententiously.

The austere doña Bernarda, dethroned by her son's resolute rebelliousness, wept as she said this.

Can it be that that simpleton of a doña Pepita is blind to all this?

Until finally doña Bernarda sank to a chair in a swoon, whispering into her adviser's ear:

Let 'em alone, let 'em alone, doña Bernarda!

I'll take you to see the doña.

To doña Bernarda he was confidential adviser.

Ulysses imagined to himself a grand señora as beautiful as Doña Constanza.