世紀文學經典:《百年孤獨》第14章Part4
Meme avoided the conversation with a short laugh. úrsula did not insist, but she ended up confirming her suspicions when Meme did not come back to visit her. She knew that she was getting up earlier than usual, that she did not have a moment's rest as she waited for the time for her to go out, that she spent whole nights walking back and forth in the adjoining bedroom, and that the fluttering of a butterfly would bother her. On one occasion she said that she was going to see Aureli-ano Segun-do and úrsula was surprised that Fernanda's imagination was so limited when her husband came to the house looking for his daughter. It was too obvious that Meme was involved in secret matters, in pressing matters, in repressed anxieties long before the night that Fernanda upset the house because she caught her kissing a man in the movies.
Meme was so wrapped up in herself at that time that she accused úrsula of having told on her. Actually, she told on herself. For a long time she had been leaving a trail that would have awakened the most drowsy person and it took Fernanda so long to discover it because she too was befogged, by her relationship with the invisible doctors. Even so she finally noticed the deep silences, the sudden outbursts, the changes in mood, and the contradictions of her daughter. She set about on a disguised but implacable vigilance. She let her go out with her girl friends as always, she helped her get dressed for the Saturday parties, and she never asked an embarrassing question that might arouse her. She already had a great deal of proof that Meme was doing different things from what she said, and yet she would give no indication of her suspicions, hoping for the right moment. One night Meme said that she was going to the movies with her father. A short time later Fernanda heard the fireworks of the debauch and the unmistakable accordion of Aureli-ano Segun-do from the direction of Petra Cotes's place. Then she got dressed, went to the movie theater, and in the darkness of the seats she recognized her daughter. The upsetting feeling of certainty stopped her from seeing the man she was kissing, but she managed to hear his tremulous voice in the midst of the deafening shouts and laughter of the audience. "I'm sorry, love," she heard him say, and she took Meme out of the place without saying a word to her, put her through the shame of parading her along the noisy Street of the Turks, and locked her up in her bedroom.
梅悔羞澀地笑了一聲，避免交談，鳥蘇娜沒有堅持。可是梅悔不再來看望她時，她的疑心就更大了。烏蘇娜知道，梅梅現在起牀比往常都早，一分鐘也坐不住，等候可以溜出家門的時刻，而且通育部在鄰室的牀上輾轉反側，房間裏總有一隻飛舞的蝴蝶妨礙她睡覺。有一次梅梅說她要去看看父親，烏蘇娜就對菲蘭達的頭腦遲鈍感到驚異了，雖然在這之後不久，奧雷連諾第二自己就來找她的女兒。十分顯然，梅梅很久以來就在千什麼祕密勾當，有什麼焦急的事，直到有一天晚上，菲蘭達發現梅梅在電影院裏跟一個男人接吻，終於把整個家庭鬧翻了天。
梅梅心裏難過，以爲烏蘇娜出賣了她，其實是她出賣了自己。她早就留下了一連串痕跡，甚至能夠引起瞎子的懷疑。如果說菲蘭達過了那麼久才發現這些痕跡，只是因爲她在全神貫注地跟沒有見過的醫生祕密通信。但是菲蘭達終於看出，女兒時而長久沉默，時而突然發抖，時而情緒驟變，脾氣暴跺了。菲蘭達開始不斷地祕密觀察梅梅。她照舊讓女兒跟女友們外出，幫她穿上星期六晚會的衣服，一次也沒向她提出可能使她警覺的難堪的問題，菲蘭達已有不少證據，梅梅所做的跟她所說的不同，可是母親爲了等待決定性的罪證，仍然沒有表露自己的懷疑，有一夭晚上，梅梅說她要跟父親去看電影。沒過多久，菲蘭達就聽到了佩特娜。柯特家的方向傳來了鞭炮的噼啪聲和奧雷連諾第二手風琴的聲音，他的手風琴跟其他任何人的手風琴都是混同不了的，於是她穿上衣服，到電影院去，在池座前幾排的昏暗中認出了自己的女兒。由於懷疑得到證實，菲蘭達感到震驚，她還來不及看清跟梅梅接吻的男人，就在觀衆震耳欲聾的叫聲和笑聲中聽出了他那顫抖的聲音。“很抱歉，親愛的，”菲蘭達一聽，二話沒說，立刻把梅梅拖出池座，羞愧地拉着她經過熙熙攘攘的土耳其人街，把她關在她的臥室裏。
