Of Love And Other Demons

The Bishop calls Father Delaura into his office and listens "without indulgence" (119) to Delaura's complete confession of his love for Sierva María. After hearing this, the Bishop strips Delaura of his "dignities and privileges" (119) and sends him to work with the lepers at the Amor de Dios Hospital. The Bishop's only "leniency" (119) is that he doesn't tell anyone about Delaura's love. The Bishop kindly grants him the right to lead the hospital patients' five-o'clock Mass, then erases Delaura "from his heart" (119).

With the loss of Delaura, Martina takes over as Sierva's unofficial caretaker at the convent. Martina hides her despair over the Viceroy's rejection of her request for pardon, but one afternoon on the terrace, tells Sierva that she would rather "be dead" (120) than stay rotting in prison. Martina asks Sierva whether her demons might be able to help, and asks Sierva who they are, and "how to negotiate with them" (120). Intrigued by the opportunity to lie, Sierva names off six demons who possess her. One of them Martina recognizes as "an African demon" (120) who had once disturbed her own parents' house. She asks Sierva if she can speak to this demon, in exchange for her soul. Delighted that her deception has been believed, Sierva tells Martina that the demon can't speak, but uses a kind of telepathy. She promises Martina she'll tell her when the demon visits her next, so Martina can meet him.

Cayetano Delaura accepts "with humility" (120) his new, downgraded position at the lepers' hospital. The patients, "in a state of legal death" (120), live in complete squalor, and many of them can no longer walk. Cayetano takes on the "purifying sacrifice" (120) of bathing the most incapacitated bodies in the horse stable troughs on Tuesdays. On the first of these Tuesdays, Abrenuncio appears at the stables, riding the horse the Marquis gave him. He asks Cayetano how his eye is faring. Cayetano, without betraying his "misfortune" (120), thanks Abrenuncio for the eye drops, which removed the sun's image from his retina. Abrenuncio says it was nothing, then invites Cayetano for a visit to his home. Cayetano says that he can't leave the hospital without special permission, but Abrenuncio dismisses this concern and offers Cayetano the use of his library while he's serving out his sentence. Before he leaves, Abrenuncio tells Cayetano that no god could have "created a talent" (121) like his to "waste it scrubbing lepers" (121).

The next Tuesday, Abrenuncio brings Cayetano a Latin translation of Voltaire's Lettres philosophiques, the value of which isn't lost on Cayetano. He wonders why Abrenuncio has taken such a liking to him. Abrenuncio says that atheists like himself need clerics like Cayetano, to deal with the "souls" (121) of his patients. Cayetano argues that this doesn't go along with Abrenuncio's beliefs, but doctor says, simply, that he doesn't "know what those are" (121). Cayetano replies that "the Holy Office knows" (121). Far from insulted, Abrenuncio again invites Cayetano to his house to talk about everything. He tells Cayetano that he seldom sleeps more than two hours a night, so he can come anytime. Then he rides away. 

Stripped of his title, Cayetano finds himself unwelcome even by his "friends in the secular arts and letters" (122), who fear retribution from the Holy Office. This doesn’t concern Cayetano, though, whose only thoughts are of Sierva María. He convinces himself that "no oceans or mountains, no laws of earth of heaven, no powers of hell" (122) can keep them apart. One night, he decides to sneak from the hospital to the convent. When he reaches it, Cayetano sizes up the convent's four entrances, each less viable than the previous. From the beach, he looks up at Sierva's window in the pavilion, the only one "no longer sealed" (122). Dejected, he suddenly remembers the tunnel the nuns had used to supply the convent during the Cessatio a Divinis. One of the lepers, a former gravedigger, told Cayetano about it, saying that it connected the nearby cemetery to a spot in the convent near the pavilion. Once inside, Cayetano must scale a "high, rugged wall" (122), which he does after several attempts. Once inside, he tiptoes past Martina, snoring in her cell, and enters Sierva's cell, lit by the "Sanctuary Lamp" (123). 

Sierva doesn't at first recognize Cayetano in his "burlap tunic" (123). He goes to her bed and shows her his bloody fingernails, telling her that he scaled the wall to see her. Unmoved, Sierva tells him to "go away" (123), or she'll scream. He refuses, scared at first, then tells her, with a "firm voice" (123) that he's not going to leave even if they kill him, so she should start screaming now if she wants. Sierva bites her lip and stares at Cayetano as he tells her about the punishment he's suffering. He doesn't tell her the reason behind it, but she understands "more than he was capable of saying" (123). Unafraid, Sierva asks him why he isn't wearing his eye patch. He tells her that his eye has healed and now when he closes his eyes, he sees "hair like a river of gold" (123). Cayetano stays with Sierva for two hours. She agrees that he can see her again if he brings her favorite pastries. 

The next night, he arrives so early that the convent hasn't yet gone to bed. Sierva sits in her cell, finishing embroidery for Martina by lamplight. The following night, Cayetano brings "wicks and oil" (124) to keep the lamp lit for longer. On the fourth night, Cayetano helps Sierva kill the lice that have infested her cell. Once Sierva's hair is clean and combed, Cayetano's "icy sweat of temptation" (124) returns. He lays down beside her and stares into her clear eyes, then begins silently praying "in fear" (124). Sierva asks Cayetano how old he is, and he answers that he turned thirty-six in March. She tells him he's a "wrinkled old man" (124), then asks him about his "lock of white hair" (124). Cayetano tells her that it's "a birthmark" (124), passed down to him from his mother. Overcome by their intimacy, Cayetano begins to recite Garcilaso verses. This confuses Sierva, and Cayetano explains that they're the verses of his distant relative, who wrote them for a woman he loved, whom never returned his affections. Sierva asks whether this relative was also a priest. Cayetano replies that he was a solider. 

Sierva asks to hear the verse again, and Cayetano repeats it, then goes on to recite, with passion and intensity, all forty of Garcilaso's love sonnets. Afterwards, he takes Sierva's hand and places it over his heart. He then confesses his consuming love for her, finally explaining that "the supreme joy of his heart would be to die with her" (125). Sierva asks him, staring at him like "a startled deer" (125), what will happen now. He says now, it's enough for him that she knows his feelings. He stays the night with her, leaving for the hospital at five-o'clock for Mass. Before he leaves, Sierva gives him one of her Santería necklaces, which is made of mother-of-pearl and coral.

Cayetano passes his days in a state of elation, waiting for the nights he spends with Sierva. She waits for him all day "with so much longing" (126) that only the sight of him allows her "to breathe again" (126). During their nights together, Sierva begins to recite Garcilaso's verses, which she's memorized from Cayetano. They say them to each other, taking liberties to adjust their lines to their situation. One morning, after succumbing to exhaustion, the warder enters the cell at dawn to check on Sierva but doesn't see Cayetano. He says that Lucifer is "quite a villain" (126), having made him "invisible too" (126). With Sierva's cunning, the warder stays away from the cell all day, and Cayetano passes the day with Sierva. They begin to feel as if they were always in love with each other. 

That evening, Cayetano moves to undo the laces on Sierva María's bodice. She puts her hands over her chest in a defensive motion, but Cayetano moves them away. With care and determination, Cayetano tells Sierva to recite one of Garcilaso's verses with him as he continues to open her bodice. She obliges, and Cayetano kisses her for the first time. They surrender to each other in passionate embrace. 

From that evening on, Sierva and Cayetano pass their time together in fevered passion, though never engaging in intercourse. Cayetano has vowed to remain chaste until he has "received the sacrament" (127) of marriage and Sierva has agreed to do the same. When not physically engaged, they exchange verbal expressions of the utmost love. Cayetano says he would be "capable of anything for her sake" (127). Sierva then asks him to eat a cockroach for her, which Cayetano does. He asks Sierva if she would cut her hair for him, and she replies yes, but "as a joke or in all seriousness" (128), that if she does, he will have to marry her "to fulfill the terms of the promise" (128). He brings her a kitchen knife to see if it's true and she offers him her hair, and urges him to do it, but he doesn't. A few days later, Sierva asks Cayetano whether he would let his throat "be slit like a goat's" (128). He says yes, and she presses the knife to his throat, which scares Cayetano. He tells her "not you" (128), because he knows Sierva "really would do it" (128). Sierva laughs at him.

As they continue to pass their time together, their love turns from intense passion to "the tedium of everyday love" (128). Sierva keeps the cell clean, as a wife awaiting the return of her husband. Cayetano teaches her to read, write, and introduces her to poetry and the "devotion to the Holy Spirit" (128). They both look forward, with hope, to the day they'll "be free and married" (128). 

On April twenty-seventh, at dawn, just after Cayetano leaves Sierva's cell, the Bishop arrives to perform Sierva's exorcism. Sierva gets dragged to the stables, doused in buckets of water, has her Santería necklaces removed, and gets dressed in "the brutal shift worn by heretics" (128). She has her hair shorn with pruning shears by the gardener nun, and the barber nun cuts the ends to just half-an-inch, the length worn by the nuns under their habits. The nun tosses Sierva's hair into the fire as she cuts it. They put Sierva into a straitjacket, drape her with "funereal trappings" (129), and have two slaves carry her into the convent chapel on a stretcher. 

The Bishop decides to perform the ceremony, alongside four senior clergy members, in the convent's chapel. The Abbess and the Clarissan sisters wait in the chancel, singing the morning prayers from behind a latticework, accompanied by the organ. The Bishop enters the chapel last, carried in a swivel chair on a platform by four slaves. They carry him to sit in front of the altar, beside a "marble catafalque" (129) usually reserved for important funerals. At six-o'clock, the two slaves carry in Sierva María on her stretcher. 

First, the Bishop uses a hyssop "as if it were a battle hammer" (130) to sprinkle holy water over Sierva's entire body. Then he says a "conjuration" (130) aloud that seems to shake the chapel. The conjuration commands whatever lives insides Sierva's body, "visible and invisible" (130) to leave her baptized body and "return to darkness" (130). This terrifies Sierva, who begins to shout, too. The Bishop tries to shout louder, continuing the exorcism, but his asthma gets the best of him and he collapses onto the floor, "gasping like a fish on land" (130). Thus, the exorcism ends.

When Cayetano comes to Sierva María that night, he finds her "shivering with fever" (130), still in her straitjacket. Her shorn hair upsets him more, though. As he undoes her restraints, Cayetano asks God how such a crime could be permitted. Sierva recounts her experience with the Bishop, telling Cayetano that the Bishop, with his breath and blazing green eyes, was "like the devil" (131). Cayetano tries to assure Sierva that despite his enormous stature, loud voice, and harsh methods, the Bishop is a "good and wise man" (131). Though Cayetano understands her fears, he tells her that she isn't in danger. 

Sierva replies that she wants to die. Cayetano tells her that she, and he, both feel "enraged and defeated" (131), but that death isn't the answer. He gives back the Santería necklace she'd given him earlier. They lay down together, and as they sleep, her fever subsides. Cayetano whispers that he wishes "to God" (131) that today were the day of "the Apocalypse" (131). 

In the morning, after Cayetano leaves, Sierva wakes up to find the Abbess and an old priest with "dark skin weathered by salt air" (131) and "eyes that invited confidence" (131). The priest tells her, in Yoruban, that he's brought Sierva her Santería necklaces, which he demanded the Abbess return. He names and defines each necklace as he places them around Sierva's neck, in Yoruban, Congolese, and Mandingo. Sierva engages him in each language with "grace and fluency" (132). Only at the end of the exchange does he switch to Castilian, and only for the Abbess' sake, who is stunned by Sierva María's capacity for "sweetness" (132). 

The man introduces himself as Father Tomás de Aquino de Narváez, and explains that the Bishop, due to failing health, has asked him to take over Sierva's exorcism. Father Aquino, a former prosecutor for the Holy Office in Seville, now serves as the parish priest in the Darien's slave district. As a prosecutor, Father Aquino had executed eleven Jewish and Muslim heretics, but he had also "wrested away" (132) many souls from "the most cunning demons in Andalusia" (132). Father Aquino was born in Darien, as the son of a "royal solicitor who married his quadroon slave" (132). After spending his novitiate years proving the "purity" (132) of his whiteness, he went on to earn his doctorate in Seville. When he returned to his home after fifty years in Spain, he requested "the humblest parish" (132) and took an enthusiastic interest in the African religions and languages of the region. He also lives "among the slaves like a slave" (132). 

In Sierva's cell, Father Aquino demonstrates to the Abbess that none of the testimony in the convent's acta proves Sierva is possessed. He also tells the Abbess that the demons in the Americas are the same as those in Europe, but the demons in each country require a different method of summoning and control. As he leaves, Father Aquino pinches Sierva's cheek, and tells her that he's "dealt with worse enemies" (133). 

Afterwards, the Abbess invites Father Aquino to join her for a cup of "the celebrated aromatic chocolate of the Clarissans" (133), along with special pastries "reserved for the elect" (133). As they eat, Father Aquino gives the Abbess instructions to follow, with which she's happy to comply. The Abbess tells him that she doesn't care about Sierva's wellbeing, only that she wants her to "leave this convent at once" (133). Father Aquino promises he will do everything he can to have Sierva out of the convent in "a matter of days, or hours, God willing" (133). They part on a friendly note.

Father Aquino walks back to his church, then spends time strolling along its arcades, "overwhelmed" (133) by the racket of the many peddlers there, selling "everything imaginable" (133). After the sun sets, he crosses the "bog of the port" (133), buys cheap pastries, and a "partial ticket in the lottery of the poor" (133) with hopes he'll win and use the money to renovate his humble church. He talks for a while to the black women selling trinkets on the ground, then crosses the Getesmaní drawbridge. There hangs "the carcass of a large, sinister dog" (133) so that people can know it died from rabies. In this part of the city, the slave district, people live in squalor alongside buzzards and pigs, and yet the air smells of roses and its "intense colors and radiant voices" (133) make it the city's "liveliest district" (133). Father Aquino gives the pastries to some of the children and keeps three for himself. 

The temple administered by Father Aquino is made of mud, cane, and palm. It has a few "plank benches" (134), a small altar with "a single saint" (134), and a rough pulpit from which Father Aquino preached on Sundays in various African languages. His house is an extension of the temple, past the altar, and consists of a "cot and a crude chair" (134). Beyond that, Father Aquino has a small courtyard with an arbor of "blighted grapes" (134), and thornbushes separating it from the surrounding marsh. The drinking water comes from a concrete cistern in the yard's corner. 

The sacristan, in charge of the temple's upkeep, and a young orphan girl, "both converted Mandingos" (134), have left for the day. Before closing the temple's doors for the night, Father Aquino eats his three pastries and drinks a glass of water, then bids his neighbors good night in Castilian. At four that morning, the sacristan arrives to ring the bell for Mass. Alarmed that the priest isn't already awake, the sacristan looks for him in his room. Not finding him there, the sacristan looks around outside and talks to a few of the neighbors. He tells the parishioners he can find that there won't be a service as he can't find the priest. At eight-o'clock, the parish's servant girl, already hot, goes to the cistern for water and discovers Father Aquino "floating on his back" (135), wearing the clothes he wore to bed. Though the mystery of Father Aquino's death remains unsolved, the Abbess uses it as evidence for "definitive proof of demonic animosity toward her convent" (135).

Sierva never learns of Father Aquino's death, instead waiting in her cell with "innocent hopefulness" (135). She can't explain to Cayetano who the man was but expresses her gratitude that he returned her necklaces and promised to save her. As it becomes clear Father Aquino will not come back, Sierva realizes that her freedom, and Cayetano's, depend on their actions alone. One night, after kissing for hours, Sierva begs Cayetano not to leave. He doesn't think she's serious and kisses her good-bye. Sierva, however, moves to block his exit. She tells him to stay, or she's going with him. Sierva had once expressed that she wanted them to take refuge in San Basilio de Palenque, a "settlement of fugitive slaves" (135) some forty miles away, where she was sure she would be "received like a queen" (135). 

Cayetano regarded this as a good idea, but he didn't think of their escape in these terms. Instead, he still clung to the hope of marrying Sierva through "legal formalities" (135). He only needed to have the Marquis remove Sierva from the convent, prove she isn't possessed, receive a pardon from the Bishop, and permission to join "a lay community" (135) where his marriage to Sierva wouldn't be scrutinized. Because of this reasoning, he doesn't take Sierva's efforts to stop his leaving seriously. However, she threatens to scream, so Delaura shoves her away just as the morning prayers begin.

Infuriated, Sierva scratches the warder's face, locks herself in her cell, and threatens to burn herself alive if they don't let her go. The warder dares Sierva to do it, calling the girl a "beast of Beelzebub" (136). Sierva sets fire to her mattress with the Sanctuary Lamp. Martina comes to calm Sierva, and the warder requests for Sierva to be transferred to a "more secure cell" (136) in the pavilion. 

Cayetano tries twice to visit the Marquis but finds himself faced both times with the Marquis' mastiffs, which have been let out of their cages "in the house with no master" (136). What Cayetano doesn't know is that the Marquis no longer lives in the house. Terrified of being attacked by his slaves, the Marquis goes to the women's hospital next door seeking out Dulce Olivia. She doesn't open her door to him. One day, though, she arrives at the Marquis' house unannounced and begins to clean his neglected kitchen. She dresses "in organza flounces" (137) and wears make-up. The Marquis thanks her for coming and confesses to Dulce Olivia his loneliness. He explains that he's "lost Sierva" (137). Dulce Olivia replies that it's his own fault, the Marquis did everything he could to lose her. She makes him stew and acts as though she were "the mistress of the house" (137), with the usually fierce mastiffs obedient to her charming command. 

As they eat in complacent peace, Dulce Olivia comments that this is how they could have been, had they opposed the first Marquis and gotten married. The Marquis comments that Dulce Olivia seems to be in her "right mind" (137) at the moment, and she argues that she always has been. The argument escalates until Dulce Olivia yells that the house is as much hers as it is the Marquis', as is Sierva. Dulce Olivia scolds the Marquis for leaving the girl in "evil hands" (138). The Marquis argues that Sierva is in "the hands of God" (138), but Dulce Olivia says Sierva's in the hands of the Bishop's son, and that he has made Sierva in "his pregnant whore" (138). This shocks the Marquis and he insults Dulce Olivia. She counters that Sagunta told her this, adding that Sagunta "exaggerates but she doesn't lie" (138). Dulce Olivia tells the Marquis not to humiliate her because she's all he has left. She begins to cry and the mastiffs, roused by the argument, begin to growl. The Marquis says that this is how they would have been. Dulce Olivia washes the dishes roughly, then breaks them, and leaves without saying goodbye. 

Rumors that Delaura and the Bishop were lovers had been replaced by the one repeated by Dulce Olivia: Delaura was the Bishop's son. Additionally, according to Sagunta, Delaura had used Sierva to sate his "satanic appetites" (139) and, in doing so, had conceived a "child with two heads" (139). This rumor leaves the Marquis inconsolable. Trying to soothe himself, he can only think of Bernarda, whose image he tries to erase from his mind by remembering her "fetid gasses" (139) and other nasty qualities. The more he tries to make her into a monster, the more tender he feels towards her. The Marquis sends word to the sugar plantation in Mahates that Bernarda should forget her anger and come home, but he receives no reply. He sets off for the plantation on his own, finding his way back "along the streams of memory" (139). 

The Marquis finds the once-prosperous plantation "reduced to nothing" (139). Making his way through the rubble, he smells Bernarda's soaps, which she used so often they'd "become her natural odor" (139). He finds her in a rocking chair on the front porch, eating cacao, and wearing a cotton tunic. She's just bathed in the "pool of sighs" (139), the only vestige of the plantation's former glory. Taking a seat beside her, the Marquis scans the horizon. He asks her where all of the people have gone. Bernarda tells him that they left, there isn't a "living soul" (140) for hundreds of miles around. The Marquis describes his solitary, fearful life to Bernarda and asks her to come back. 

Bernarda tells him that he wouldn't ask her this if he knew how much she hated him. She goes on to detail the collapse of her life, beginning with she and her father's plot to take the Marquis for his money. Together, Bernarda and her father had planned her seduction of the Marquis, and Sierva's conception. Bernarda couldn't bring herself to commit the final act, which her father had planned: to poison the Marquis with laudanum. Bernarda admits that she suffered at her own hand and could never have been expected to love either Sierva or the Marquis. After Judas Iscariote died, Bernarda tried to replace him by sleeping with male slaves of her choosing, in the plantation fields. Her abuse of fermented honey and cacao ravaged her body so much that soon the slaves "did not have the courage" (141) to sleep with her, so she began to pay them, first in trinkets, then in gold. Bernarda soon discovers, however, that the slaves have begun fleeing to San Basilio de Palenque to "escape her insatiable craving" (141). She wishes that she would have been physically able to slay them, along with Sierva, the Marquis, her own father, and all the others who turned her life "to shit" (141). The Marquis says he's realized he has nothing to thank Bernarda for, and gets up to leave. Two years later, someone finds his skeleton, picked clean by turkey buzzards.

At the convent, Martina tells Sierva "with unusual sadness" (142) that if one of them leaves without the other, Sierva should "always remember" (142) her. The next day, Martina is not in her cell. Sierva finds a note under her pillow from Martina, saying that she will "pray three times a day" (142) for Sierva and Cayetano's happiness. The Abbess, vicar, reverend sisters, and armed guards come to Sierva's cell, and the Abbess calls the girl "an accomplice" (142). She threatens punishment. Sierva puts up her free hand and says that she saw Martina leave, carried across the terrace by six demons with "bat's wings" (143). The captain of the armed guard crosses himself and drops to his knees. In truth, Martina uses the same tunnel Cayetano does for his late-night visits. She fails to close the entrance on the convent side, and when those who investigate discover it, they follow the tunnel, then seal closed both entrances. 

Cayetano discovers the sealed entrance that night, when he goes to visit Sierva. He goes immediately to the Marquis' house, now abandoned. The full moon lights up the house's interior and Cayetano finds it is in perfect order. He finds Dulce Olivia in the courtyard, dressed in a marquise's tunic, hair adorned with camellias. Cayetano crosses himself then asks who she is, in God's name. She replies that she's a "soul in torment" (144). Cayetano introduces himself and asks to speak to the Marquis. Dulce Olivia tells him that the Marquis isn't interested in speaking to "a scoundrel" (144) like Cayetano. She tells him that she is "the queen of this house" (144) now. Cayetano pleads with Dulce Olivia, for Sierva's sake, explaining that he's "dying of love for her" (144). Dulce Olivia tells him to get out before she turns the dogs on him. Cayetano obeys.

The next Tuesday, at the Amor de Dios Hospital, Cayetano confesses to Abrenuncio the real reason for his punishment by the Bishop. He also tells Abrenuncio about his nights of sneaking into Sierva's cell. This all perplexes Abrenuncio, who cannot understand sexual inclinations, nor the appeal of romantic love. He believes love condemns "two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence" (144-145). This does nothing to sway Cayetano from his mission. He tells Abrenuncio that he went to the Marquis to ask for Sierva's hand in marriage but didn't find him at home. Abrenuncio explains the Marquis' reaction the rumor of Cayetano's abuse of Sierva. He then asks Cayetano if he's afraid he "will be damned" (145). Cayetano says he's not afraid. This abandonment of reason alarms Abrenuncio. 

Cayetano hurries to the convent, entering through a service door and making his way to the prison pavilion in broad daylight. He believes that he's been made "invisible through the power of prayer" (145). Without knowing it, he passes Sierva's new cell. A veiled nun stops him just before he reaches the prison. She holds her crucifix out towards Cayetano, shouting, "Vade retro!" (146), or 'get back.' A huge group of nuns joins her, all veiled, all shouting 'Vade retro.' Cayetano submits, and they turn him over to the Holy Office. He is condemned under suspicions of heresy but shown grace in his punishment. He must work as a nurse at the Amor de Dios Hospital, where he lives out his life, hoping to contract leprosy, though he never does. 

In her new cell, Sierva waits for Cayetano to rescue her. She stops eating, which worsens her signs of possession, and the nuns shave her head with a razor. Fueled by Cayetano's misfortune, Father Aquino's mysterious death, and the public's reaction to both, the Bishop begins the exorcism again. Sierva screams and speaks in tongues. On the second day, nearby cattle begin bellowing, the earth shakes, and no one doubts Sierva's possession. They give her a holy water enema, and she continues to refuse food. After a week, she realizes she's so thin that she can slip out of her restraints to kick the Bishop, which she does. The Ecclesiastical Council advises the Bishop to end the exorcism, but he continues. 

Sierva never finds out what happened to Cayetano. On May twenty-ninth, Sierva dreams again of the snow-covered field she and Cayetano had both dreamed. She sits by the window, watching the snow, eating golden grapes, "two by two" (147), desperate to get to devour the entire bunch. In the morning, the warder comes to prepare Sierva for her sixth exorcism session but finds her "dead of love" (147) in her bed. Her open eyes are radiant, her skin smooth, and her hair gushes "like bubbles" (147) as it grows "back on her shaved head" (147).