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The doctor stays busy in his science and the medical profession, while she commits herself to her domestic life.

Finally, she agrees to marry him without any preconditions. Despite her initial rejections, Urbino persists to which Lorenzo Daza also encourages by seeing security and the good life in the future. Meanwhile, she comes into contact with a heroic figure of Juvenal Urbino, a doctor by profession, who also starts courting her. Even though Florentino swears to celibacy and fidelity until he reconciles with her, he later begins affairs with numerous women albeit there’s a rumor spread that he is homosexual. As soon as she realizes this, she snaps it with advice to her paramour to stop writing her. When after some time she gets matured and returns to the city, she realizes that after all this relationship with Ariza is just an illusion. The distance, though, did little to stop their love, for Ariza and Daza, they communicate through telegraphs they used to send to each other with the help of Fermina’s older cousin Hildebranda Sánchez. She rather refuses to stop it until the father has decided to move to the city of his deceased wife.

However, the headstrong girl does not pay attention to him. This secret love affair continues for some time when Lorenzo Daza, the strict father of the girl, comes to know about this love affair, making him furious at his daughter and forcing her to stop it immediately. Soon Ariza succeeds in creating a secret link to the girl through her spinster aunt, Escolastica through whom they start writing letters to each other.

The novel depicts the flashback of Florentino Ariza as the sick lover of Fermina Daza, a young, innocently attractive girl. During the investigation of the suicide, he discovers the secret lover of Saint-Armour referred to as ‘mulatta’ in the novel. Urbino has witnessed was caused not because of the sufferings of love. Urbino commits suicide at the age of sixty to escape becoming old using cyanide. The story begins with the autopsy of Jeremiah Saint-Amour, photographer of children, a renowned chess player and friend of Dr.