Agueda and Badoy’s bitter marriage all began on a May night. Agueda in the story had died miserably because her life was molded into something she didn’t wish. She was forced to marry Don Badoy because the latter had a tremendous desire for her. Her whole life was spent grieving for the situation she can’t escape. Badoy’s heart forgets how much he felt for Agueda. The misfortune is how both were not careful enough to mend their drifting marriage.
“But alas, the heart fogets, the heart is distracted, and May time passes, summer ends, the storms break over the hot-ripe orchards and the heart grows old, while the hours, the days, the months and the years pile up and pile up until the mind becomes crowded, too confused, dust gathers in it, cobwebs multiply, the walls darken and fall into ruin and decay, the memory perishes…”
Both Badoy and Agueda perceived their marriage to be a taste of hell. Instead of admitting that they saw their spouses in the mirror, they claimed that it was the with/devil they saw for that was probably how each of them was to each other during their life together. It is good that Badoy can live in the sweetest past he and Agueda had but it is sad that Agueda never found out how much she really meant to Badoy all this time. She died not knowing that she and Badoy had was real. The love did not go away.
