Pepita Ximenez by Juan Valera — Read

Here end the letters of Don Luis de Vargas. We should therefore be left / in ignorance of the subsequent fortunes of these lovers, and this simple / and ardent love-story would have remained without an ending, if one / familiar with all the circumstances had not left us the following / narrative:

No one in the village found anything strange in the fact of Pepita's / being indisposed, or thought, still less, of attributing her / indisposition to a cause of which only we, Pepita herself, Don Luis, the / reverend dean, and the discreet Antonona, are thus far cognizant.