Weeks later, the wedding of Uélton and Flávia was set to take place even against Mirtes's wishes.

"Adolfo, you can't be serious!" Mirtes snapped one day when he was trying to read the wanted-ads in the living room, "My daughter won't make the same mistakes as me!"

Adolfo leaves the newspaper in his lap and settles himself in his armchair, "And what mistakes did you make?"

"Marry you! My daughter doesn't deserve to suffer in the clutches of a man. She's better than all that!"

"But Flavia won't marry me." He smiles wryly, "She's going to marry the guy she's decided to sleep with and have her first time with....