Sofia's Journey: Love, Loss, and Legacy in Valldaura

One Morning

He explains how he saved Rollat's breakfast with Teresa and Armanda in Masdeu. He went to get breakfast for her, but she had died. Masdeu got a red tie to celebrate it but was very sad. We noticed how the garden was slowly deteriorating, and its initial color.

Youth

It is the memory of Teresa. He remembers the first day he fell in love with Masdeu, explaining step by step how they met. At the foot of a dune, he saw a portrait and bent down to pick it up: it was a guy dressed in a garment, underpinning a rifle with a bayonet, puffing on a drum. A voice asked, "Do you like it?" He turned and was in front of the rifle that the soldier was holding in Masdeu.

They also explain how the love between the two developed to the point that Teresa was pregnant but could not marry him because he was married.

Death of Teresa

Finally, the death of the novel's protagonist. It explains, step by step, how she weakens, remains without power, and recalls the most intense time she had experienced, like the three most significant losses in her life: her son Masdeu, the death of James, and the death of Mary. Page 8, in the last 328 lines, explains the feelings that Teresa had for men.

Closed Rooms

Sofia remembers all her dead relatives and wants to enter the rooms to see how they are, but they are closed. She asks for the key, opens the doors, and starts looking at them. The only person who did not want more memories was Eladi's daughter. He ordered that there be no closed doors at home. He went to shower when he came out and warned him that Mr. Fontanills had arrived. Sofia fell and began to talk about all the problems of the different agencies and sent him up. Fontanills says that if you give him time, maybe there were conflicts with the general in northern Africa.

A Return Soon, Dona Sofia

No one was left to serve the house, only Micheline and Armanda. Sofia had decided to go abroad, wrapping up everything in Sanavia. Mr. Fontanills was very upset. The houses had no owner, and the farmer said that the farms belonged to Parcero Dell. Miquela was very concerned because she and Armanda had sewn jewels and feared that they would arrive in Andorra before the trap.

One night, Sofia left to spend the money because Armanda was not there, and she gave him a bottle of champagne that night. Armanda was alone at home. He took Miss Sophia's hand mirror and went to walk home with the mirror facing forward as if the air held a torch. He went down the stairs from the first floor, through the hall, to the last step, and fell. The broken mirror startled him. When he bent down to grab the pieces of the mirror, he saw his life pass in each one. He got up, troubled, with the mirror in his hand. The time for champagne arrived. He left the mirror on the table. He raised the cup and saw all their money underground. He called out [in a voice so rare that it seemed his own] to dunk a piece of the mirror. There was a long, narrow handle; the skull was of an adult hand. He rubbed his eyes, and it vanished.

Tower VI

Sleeping in the Devil's room in Valldaura.

A lost voice in the night shouts a name [it was not clear what name it was]. Beyond the sea, each one went home with a shiny red angel. A troop of angels lowered to greet her and came from all sides, east and west, troops and troops with the tips of their wings, rubbed her face, sweeter than honey, cooler than a sprig of parsley. The angels had no face, no feet, no body. They were a soul with wings, like a vaporous cloud amid much love.

The next day, he went in the afternoon instead of changing furniture and entering the desk, cabinets, and binders. From the balcony, he sees the furniture falling... and Masdeu is also there. He never stopped giving orders to others... Armanda prompts you to modify any of Teresa's and Maria's rooms...