- Ramona Moreno: Why don't you love me? All my life you've treated me like one of your possesions, like this table, or this bed. I'm something you can send away. First to the convent now you're forcing me to marry!
- Fernando Coronado: Phillipe and Ramona love each other.
- Analupe Coronado: Bu they're brother and sister!
- Fernando Coronado: No, they aren't.
- Analupe Coronado: Well, they grew up as siblings.
- Beatriz Echague: I'm deathly ill. I haven't been able to respond to attempts to cure me, so I've come to break our engagement.
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- Ramona Moreno: [as Beatrice leaves] She looked so much better.
- Felipe Moreno: I know.
- Perpetua de Echague: Why didn't you tell them the truth? You're not sick anymore.
- Beatriz Echague: Why would I want to hurt him?
- Doña Ramona Gonzaga Viuda de Moreno: Promise me, that you will sell this house and return to Mexico. Bury me here, I wish to be buried with my love. But America isn't kind to Mexicans. Go back. Start a new life there.