The Bridge Of San Luis Rey. By Thornton Wilder

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These letters are in stark contrast to Wilder's description of what the Marquesa's life is really like; she is old and ugly and eccentric, and the butt of all Lima's jokes. She, however, lives in blissful ignorance of this fact, because her attention is so completely focused on her daughter...
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She does not even see the fact that in her own household her faithful little teenage maid is miserable from the lack of being loved. When she accidentally learns this from reading one of Pepita's letters (coincidentally on the same day that the Marquesa receives a criticizes letter from her own daughter) she goes in and touches the hair of the sleeping Pepita and says, "Let me begin again" (Wilder, 39)...
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