Caray, Caray!

• Seeing as how he's already guessed her identity, Maite tells all to Andres. "If I hadn't married Adolfo, your dad would have rotted in jail and you and Daniel would have moldered in an orphanage. I lost my own daughter. But I knew Nuria was a good woman and a good mother to you..." It was a good scene. She informs him that she and Victor are like brother and sister, and that Veronica is adopted.
  
  Then she makes him promise to tell nobody. She will have to find her own time for telling Valeria the truth - if Valeria is ever seen again.
  
  
• Stupid, stupid Valeria sneaks out of the convent every night and INTO the hacienda, where she nurses and dandles her baby all night - then sneaks BACK to the convent through the cold, wet tunnels, and then has to say her rosary instead of going to bed, so she gets exhausted, and her little cough turns into a raging fever and she is confined to bed.
  
  
• Jacinta boots the nun out of the hacienda. Then she boots Cleotilde out of Pedrito's room. Then she opens the windows, takes the blanket off the baby, takes away his bottle, and watches him get sick. "You're a child of sin, son of a nobody, you'll be much better off with God." Then she leaves.
  
  In the morning she sneaks back in, gives back his blanket, and closes the windows. Cleo comes in and exclaims tremulously, "Pedrito is burning up!" "Oh, what a pity."
  
  Jacinta pretends to call the doctor: "Oh, he's with another patient, what a pity." She hangs up and says, "There's nothing we can do till the doctor comes. So go make my breakfast and leave this stupid baby here." Cleo protests, Jacinta screams again: "Make! My! Breakfast!" Cleo hightails it out of the nursery, and Jacinta hisses to the squalling infant: "Better you should go to God than live humiliated in this world..." It was splendid, my favorite scene yet, except for maybe the time she watched the old Padre die on the floor because she wouldn't give him his medicine. That might have been even better.
  
  
• Maite gets more anonymous flowers, Andres kills more bulls, nobody knows who bought Las Barricas, still no sign of Unibrow. Victor sings "Happy Birthday" (well) to his mother over the phone, then Guillermo calls his own mother. Really, I'm not making this up.
  
  
• Remember when I said that the superannuated Miss Josefina Maldonado looks like Joan Rivers? I found this picture of Joan at AwfulPlasticSurgery.com, a truly excellent and satisfying site.
  
  Anyway, the most pitiful subplot ever: some old dude in the Maldonado household, name of Nabuco, is actually jealous that dapper-but-useless Sergio (Jacinta's ne'er-do-well brother) is flirting with this tight-faced horror. So -- he puts salt in Sergio's coffee! And then Sergio doesn't want his coffee! Really, I'm not making this up.
  
  
• While showing off his dairy to Bruno (who is working for the mysterious out-of-towner who bought Las Barricas), Rodrigo admits: "I used to be a complete cretin, but the blows of life have put me in my place."
  
  Meanwhile his grandfather, Manola's dad Nicolas, is going bonkers. The maid spills an itsy bit of tomato sauce on him when she serves his dinner and he loses it, shouting, "You've stained my hands with blood." He rushes to the bathroom and scrubs and scrubs - but he can't get the blood off... The mother and Manola seem a little bit interested, but actually not very.
  
  
• Andres mopes around Aguascalientes and then decides to go to the convent and ask the nuns if they know where his wife Valeria is - at the very moment when she, Valeria, is staggering to her feet in that very convent, insisting that her fever has broken and that she must go to her baby.
  
  She dresses as a nun so as to glide anonymously past him as he stands moping handsomely in the courtyard, but he, coincidentally, chooses at that moment to reach out and grab her arm (do people actually grab nuns' arms?) and ask, "can you help me?" as she passes. Her mouth open in surprise yet again, she hasn't yet turned toward him when -- the curtain comes down.

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