“Rita”

The day was so hot, and I arrived home from church exhausted, needing a shower and some refreshment. It was tiring playing the abandoned wife and having to accept all the advice and lamentations about my ungrateful husband who left home. Actually, when I arrived and realized that Orlando had left home, I was quite happy; I was already tired of him, but I needed to maintain my role as the loving, abandoned wife.

- Cida! Cida! – I called the maid, but she was a slowpoke, always taking fore