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...much better had he not fled. Each sees his return only as a means to exploit him for a selfish end. His wife wants to be a fine lady in a fine house, with a special room for seances. Amelia wants a dowry so that she can enter a convent. Pedro wants capital for a rice swindle. And Juan wants enough money to support a wife...
When Luisa becomes ill and insane, and Amelia enters her convent, and Pedro denounces Juan to the Falange, Which shoots him down in the street, Don Antolin decides to take Lucia with him back to England. The book ends as he leads her to the airport, impelled by a desire to build for her the life he could not give his real children...
...mind on murder. It has a certain novelty of atmosphere and attack: it tells of a gifted young painter (Leueen MacGrath) who has been condemned to hang for poisoning her brother, and who is forced by floods-while being taken to prison-to spend some time at a convent. A nursing sister (Margaret Webster) has a fierce conviction that the girl is innocent, and works at the case till she finds the right solution...
...convert to the rage for spiritualism in which many of the poor seek a solace they cannot find in the church. Juan, the younger son, is an underpaid factory worker and a Communist. Daughter Amelia, frightened, hypocritical and ill, wants only enough money to buy her way into a convent and escape from the terrors of life. Only Pedro, the elder son, has learned to cope with life in Spain. A pimp, a Falangist and a black-marketeer, he keeps the family alive even as they insult him for his crimes and venalities...
...Answer. Before Antolin's visit is over, Juan has been killed by Falangists, Señora Luisa is on the verge of insanity, and Pedro deeper than ever in criminality. Overwhelmed by what he has seen in so short a time, Antolin buys Amelia into her convent and prepares to return to England. Perplexed and saddened, he is sure of one thing: he cannot live in Spain...