Brown, who promises to get rid of the ants with special products. Esteban Trueba and Pedro Segundo García use every trick in the book, but they fail to get rid of the little buggers. A plague of ants of Biblical proportions hits Tres Marías.Still, Clara is happy in the countryside and doesn't want to return to the capital. Férula hates the country, where life seems barbaric to her, and wants to go back to "civilization." She has a couple of freak-outs when a mouse gets stuck in her corset and when the mayor of the town walks in on her as she's using the bathroom.
Férula tries to convince Clara to go back to the city.Clara seems unperturbed by her husband's rant. When Esteban finds out about Clara's speeches at the prayer meetings, he throws a furious temper tantrum.To Clara's dismay, the peasant women merely laugh at her radical notions. The pious Férula organizes nightly prayer meetings for the women, after which Clara shares her mother's feminist ideas. Clara feels called to help the residents of her husband's plantation, and puts aside her clairvoyant activities in order to work in the sewing workshop, the general store, and the school.Esteban is no longer in the habit of visiting the Red Lantern or assaulting peasant girls, and the tenants attribute this to Clara.Clara's intuition helps her pick up on the tenants' resentment and fear of her husband, and makes her suspect some of the shadier activities of his past.They play all day and fall asleep naked in each other's arms under the dining room table, where Clara finds them. When they arrive, Blanca the toddler toddles off to play with Pedro Tercero García, the son of Pedro Segundo García. Clara, Blanca, and Férula travel to Tres Marías with Esteban for the first time, and they manage to bring an impressive amount of luggage.
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