CHAPTER FOUR
THE DAY THAT Florentino Ariza saw Fermina Daza in the atrium of the
Cathedral, in
the sixth month of her pregnancy and in full command of her new
condition as a woman
of the world, he made a fierce decision to win fame and fortune in order to
deserve her.
He did not even stop to think about the obstacle of her being married,
because at the same
time he decided, as if it depended on himself alone, that Dr. Juvenal Urbino
had to die.
He did not know when or how, but he considered it an ineluctable event
that he was
resolved to wait for without impatience or violence, even till the end of
time.