Amarte es mi Pecado                               Summaries from the USA in English June 14, 2004 – September 3, 2004 

                                                                        English summaries for June 14-17,  2004 added 9/4/04

                                                                        English summary for June 18 and July 14, 2004 added 9/11/04

                                                                        English summary for July 16 added 9/12/04

                                                                        English summaries for June 28-July 2, 2004 and July 19, 2004 added 9/18/04

                                                                        English summaries for July 5-9, 20, 22 and 28 added 10/8/04

 

 

 

Mexico (Televisa) Jan. 5, 2004 -  May 14, 2004

USA (Univision) June 14, 2004 –

 

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SYNOPSIS

http://www.esmas.com/amarteesmipecado/sinopsis/   por: Redacción  Fuente: esmas.com

 

     In the city of Pátzcuaro lives Nora, a beautiful young woman full of dreams....

     The women envy her and the men want her, but she has eyes only for Alfredo, a good-looking young but poor man.  Her father, Jacobo, has insisted for as long as she can remember that she must marry a rich and powerful man.  Because he isn’t well, Nora hides her romance with Alfredo.  After her father dies,  her stepmother tries to sell her to Heriberto, the richest man in Pätzcuara, with Alfredo’s help!

     In defense of her honor, Nora badly injures Heriberto.  But he, afraid of the scandal, does not press charges.  Nevertheless, because of the gossip, Nora goes to Morelia to live with her aunt Alejandro..

     In Morelia, Nora meets Arturo and falls madly in love with him.  Arturo falls in love with her, too, but he is planning to leave the country to take the job he has always dreamed of: to be the pilo of a commercial airline.  Arturo promises that he will return to marry her, and Nora happily prepares for her wedding while keeping it a secret from Alejandra.

     Arturo meets Paulina and both are surprised to wake up one morning together.  They say goodbye because both have urgent commitments elsewhere. When Paulina returns to México, she confesses what happened to her fiancée Juan Carolos.  He is understanding and insists on continuing with their plans for marriage, but she has doubts because she realices that she has fallen in love with Arturo.

     Nora discovers that she is expecting Arturo’s baby, but before she is able to tell him, Paulina has already called him with the news that she is pregnant. Arturo feels compelled to tell Nora who can’t believe that once more she has been betrayed by the man she loves. She doesn’t tell him that she is pregnant, decides to dedicate herself to raising the child alone.

     Broken-hearted and bitter, Nora swears that she will never love again, that she will begin a new life in which she will use her beauty to take advantage of men. She will live from now on only to make money, no matter what it takes, and to find a way, no matter what, to punish Arturo whom she hates with every ounce of her being while, at the same time, being unable to stop loving him because to love him is her sin.

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SUMMARIES

FIRST WEEK JUNE 14-18, 2004

 

 

From Marietta, translations of summaries posted on the Univision forum for summaries

     Telenovela-World.  Translation by Marietta

     of Univision Forum’s raider2004: RESUMEN DEL GRAN ESTRENO~~PRIMER CAPITULO-LUNES 6/14!!

     June 14, the debut episode of Amarte es Mi Pecado

     Nora Guzman fires a gun at Don Heriberto in defense of her honor.  Later she calls the authorities to tell them that she killed a man.  The commander interrogates Nora and she tells him the following story.

     Nora was happy and wanted to marry Alfredo, but he wanted something more.   Isaura, her stepmother, told her that she should pursue someone better than Alfredo.  Jacobo, Nora’s dying father, makes her promise that she will marry a rich and powerful man.  She remembers from her childhood that her father has long been trying to persuade her to marry a rich and powerful man and that money is the most important thing.  While she is with Jacobo she receives a call from Alfredo.  He tells her that he has to go shortly to work for Don Heriberto at his hotel.  Nora tells him that yes, they will marry.  Jacobo is now very bad and wants to know who she said she is going to marry.  Nora tells him that she will marry Alfredo Rangel.  Jacobo says that this is impossible.  Alfredo is a loser and not worthy of Nora.  She insists to her father that she loves him.  Jacobo slaps Nora and tells her to leave.  She comes back to beg his pardon but Isaura tells her that it’s too late.  Jacobo has died. Nora cries at the death of her father.  She fells that she has provoked his death. 

     Dona Gertrudis, her husband Don Heriberto, and Alfredo arrive to give their condolences to Nora and Isaura.  Isaura tells Heriberto that they need help and to please give Nora work.  Heriberto agrees.  Nora doesn’t want to work for Heriberto because she knows he has something else in mind.  Isaura tells Nora that she will talk with Heriberto but she in fact makes a deal with him.  Heriberto agrees that Alfredo will sing in the restaurant of the hotel.  Alfredo tells Nora that he will fix things with Don Heriberto.  Nora agrees and goes to talk with Don Heriberto in his office.  He bars the door and tries to rape Nora.  She shoots him in defense of his honors.

     The commander tells Nora that he understands her situation but has to incarcerate her.  Gertrudis asks Heriberto why Nora shot him.  Heriberto tells the doctor that he has to talk with the commander.  Isaura visits Nora and wants to know why she shot Heriberto.  Nora says she shot him for the love of Alfredo.  Isaura asks why, if Alfredo loves her so much, he has not come to see her in jail?  Isaura shows the town newspaper to Nora where the story of the shooting is front page news.  The commander tells Nora that Heriberto didn’t die but that he is in grave condition.  Heriberto tells the commander that Nora is innocent.

     Meanwhile, Claudia, a student, tells her boyfriend Roberto that she dislikes Paulina, another student.  Paulina passes, looks at Roberto and is distracted.  Paulina’s classmates pour coffee on top of her, claiming that it is an accident.  Another student,   Renata, says that this was no accident.  She asks if Paulina is ok.  Though they are not from the same group, a friendship between the two begins.   Renata invites Paulina to have dinner with her later at the hotel that her father owns.  

     Paulina’s father, Don Silverio, and her brother, Rafael, talk about Paulina and how she supports Don Silverio in his work as an inventor. 

     At the same time, Arturo, a pilot, is talking with his friend in the office of the regional air cargo service where they work.  They will be staying in Morelia for a while.   He phones Mexico to tell his grandfather Don Clemente that he’ll be away for a while.  Arturo speaks with Pascuala, a young girl who lives in the rooming house that Don Clemente runs.  Dona Chloe, another resident of the rooming house, calls Arturo to tell him to come back, that his grandfather is not feeling well.

     Renata introduces Paulina to Diego, Arturo’s good friend.  He tells Paulina that Arturo had to leave. 

     Arturo makes his grandfather promise that he will have some studies done that the doctor had ordered.

     Silverio doesn’t want to promise that he won’t do anything dangerous in his inventions.  Rafa tells Paulina that everything is fine and not to worry about money.  Later her father asks Paulina when she is going to tell her brother that she is working in the University cafeteria. 

     Nora cries in the jail cell.   

 

     Telenovela-World.  Translation by Marietta

     of Univision forum’s marycitaa:  ^Resumen de hoy Martes

     Summary in English     Amarte es mi pecado  June 15, 2004

     Don Clemente, Arturo’s grandfather, is in pain.  He asks that no one at the rooming house tell Arturo.  However, Dona Chloe calls Arturo.

     Isaura, stepmother of Nora, tells Nora that she will stay in jail for the rest of her life.  However, Don Heriberto, fearing a scandal, has declared that she is innocent and that the pistol fired while she was showing her how to use it.  The commander is suspicious, wondering how Nora could have fired five times by accident.  But Gertrudis, wife of Heriberto, supports his claim that Nora is innocent.   Nora is released.

     Renata talks with Paulina and tells her that she will soon find the love of her life.  Paulina doubts that anyone will be interested in her.

     Alfredo asks Nora why she shot Heriberto.  She tells him that she did it to defend their love.  He tells her that she is stupid, that she should be friendly with Heriberto to secure his help for Alfredo in establishing a career as a singer.  Nora asks Alfredo if he knows what Heriberto’s intentions were.  Alfredo says “yes” and that all she had to do was be friendly with him.  Nora wonders how she could have loved Alfredo. 

     Nora:  You betrayed me, you betrayed our love.

Alfredo: Here only the strong survive.

Nora: I don’t believe what Isaura said about you.

Alfredo: Do you know that Isaura sold you to Heriberto for good money.

Nora:  No, that’s not true.  I don’t ever want to ever see you again.  I hate you.

     Arturo arrives at Don Clemente’s.

     Renata and Paulina are at the hotel owned by Renata’s father Julian.  Diego says hello and asks if he can join them.  Renata introduces him to Paulina.  Diego tells them about Arturo’s return to Mexico and that he is a good worker and responsible person.  Later they ask some questions about Arturo and Diego tells them that Arturo is single.

     Nora confronts Isaura about selling her to Heriberto.  Isaura denies it, saying that Alfedo is a coward.

     Nora: Nothing matters to me now that I’m responsible for provoking my father’s death.

Isaura: You killed your father by believing in that imbecile (Alfredo).  All that matters in this world is power.

     Arturo is with his grandfather, Don Clemente, who promises to have the medical studies the doctor has recommended.

     Paulina makes her father Silverio promise not to use powders in his experiments.  He asks when she is going to tell her brother Rafa that she is working at the university cafeteria. 

     Nora ponders the words of Isaura.  She thinks: Is it possible that love of the kind I dream of doesn’t exist?

     Silverio asks Paulina what she will do when she graduates with her journalism degree.  Has she thought about love?  She laughs and goes off.

     Paulina is in her journalism class with Claudia.  At the end of class Claudia tells Roberto that they have to think of a way to ruin Paulina.

     Paulina runs into Roberto and he invites her to a party.

     Isaura confronts Alfredo:  What I have to say will take only a minute.  I don’t want to be seen with you.  Let’s make a deal.  You don’t mess with me and I won’t mess with you.

     Paulina tells her father about the party.  She tells him that she’s worried that her brother will want to accompany her.  Silverio says not to worry about that.

     Nora is crying while looking at the photo of her father.  She asks:  Is it love or money, Papa?

     Arturo talks with Diego about love.  Arturo is sure that exists and that true love comes only once.

     Renata lends a dress to Paulina to wear to the party and asks her to come along to meet Arturo, Diego’s friend.  They meet Diego but when Arturo, who has returned to Morelia from Mexico, is late Paulina leaves.

     Alfredo tells Gertrudis that Nora offered herself to Heriberto.  He says that he loved Nora but didn’t realize that she was using him.  All that counts with her is money, he says.  Gerturdis can’t believe it.  Then she asks why Nora fired at her husband and wonders if it was because Nora demanded money and Heriberto wouldn’t give it to her.

     The entire town is gossiping about Nora. She goes to the cemetery and begs her father’s pardon, saying that she loved Alfredo.

     Arturo, Diego, Julian (father of Renata) and Renata have a meal together.

     Paulina is dressed up for the party and asks her father how she looks.  He says that she looks lovely but needs a necklace that her deceased mother left. 

     Arturo returns to his grandfather’s house in Mexico.  Everyone is thrilled with his arrival.  Diana, one of the younger women in the house, tells him not to forget the appointment they have together.

     Isaura tells Nora to take Gertrudis some towels they’ve got for the hotel.  Nora refuses.  Isaura insists.   Gertrudis asks Nora how she dares to enter the hotel and slaps her.

     As she leaves, Alfredo tries to kiss Nora.  She slaps him and he insults her.  He tries to rape her.

     Paulina arrives at the party very happily.  A bucket of water falls on her head as everyone there laughs at her.

 

     Telenovela-World.  Translation by Marietta

     of Univision Forum’s candy1116:  MIERCOLES, 16 DE JUNIO (Redactado por JOHANNA)

     Episode 3    June 16, 2004    Summary in English  Amarte es mi pecado

     Arturo speaks with his grandfather Don Clemente regarding a plane accident involving his father.  Arturo has inherited his love of flying from his father.  He wonders why they have never before spoken of the accident.

     Paulina comes to the university and tells Renata what happened at the party.  Paulina says that she believes that Claudia manipulated Roberto to involve him in the mean prank. Paulina and Renata go to the cafeteria to confront Claudia.     Arturo finds the newspaper where it says that his father was guilty of the air accident where many people were killed.  Arturo asks Don Clemente why he was never told the story of the accident.  Arturo expresses his conviction that he had the right to know.

     Nora believes that true love doesn’t exist.   She arrives home and tells Isaura why she didn’t deliver the towels to Gertrudis.  Isaura tells her she could have done so – she is a capable person, capable of killing her father!

     Don Clemente tells Arturo that he didn’t tell him the truth about the accident because he wanted Arturo to have a good memory of his father.  Now Arturo doesn’t want to submit his papers for a job with an airline that is searching for pilots.

     Paulina invites Renata to her journalism class.

     Gertrudis talks with Heriberto and tells him that she understands that Nora was ultimately at fault for the shooting.  She learned from Alfredo that Nora tried to get money from Heriberto.  Heriberto says that he must speak to Alfredo and thank him for his help.

     Don Clement asks Pascuala, the young woman at the rooming house, to send Arturo’s papers to the airline.

     Paulina, her brother Rafa, and their father Don Silverio talk.  The brother and sister doubt that either will ever marry.  Their father tells his son that he needs to get away from the craft workshop he runs more often to get to know more people.  At that moment, Renata arrives.  Rafa and Renata are attracted to each other.

     Gertrudis wants Nora to leave the town.

     Arturo is in Morelia.  He sees hurling herself Nora in the lake.  He runs to her and saves her life by mouth-to-mouth respiration.  He carries her to the church where she prays to the Virgin and asks pardon for trying to kill herself.

     Silverio asks Rafa to accompany Renata to her house.  In the street she talks about her life.  He is jealous of her many friends and riches but finally kisses her and she leaves.

     Nora talks with her stepmother, Isaura, and says that she is tired of all of the humiliations she has suffered.  She says that she is innocent.  Her only sin was to defend her love for Alfredo.  Isaura says her mistake was to love the wrong man.

     Meanwhile, Casilda arrives home after attending mass and says that she enjoys only mass and her language videos.  She sees the newspaper with Nora’s picture and shows it to her godmother Alejandra.  Nora arrives at Alejandra’s house.  Alejandra slaps her, asking how she dare come to her house.

    

     Telenovela-World.  Translation by Marietta 

     of Univision Forum’s candy1116:  JUEVES, 17 DE JUNIO (Redactado por DIOSAELECTRICA)

     Summary in English June 17, 2004

     Aunt Alejandra receives Nora with a slap.  She says that a killer is coming to her house.  Nora asks that she be allowed to explain what happened with Heriberto.  Nora tells her aunt that she is innocent and she fired at Heriberto because he tried to abuse her.

     Paulina talks with Renata who is thinking about the kiss that Rafa gave her.  Paulina asks Renata what happened and she says that Rafa was rude and coarse with her.

     Nora gets down on her knees and asks Aunt Alejandra to believe her.  Alejandra asks her why she came.  Nora asks if she can please live with her.  Alejandra responds that she will have to think about it.

     Arturo talks with his friend Diego about Nora.  Diego asks if he is interested in a killer. Arturo answers that he saw Nora enter the church, get down on her knees in front of the Virgin and told her that the Virgin that she was innocent.  She didn’t know that Arturo was listening to her.

     Alejandra tells Nora that she never forgave her sister, Nora’s mother, for marrying Jacobo, her father.  Nora looks at Alejandra and then she goes.  Casilda asks her godmother Alejandra if Nora is going to stay and live with them in the house.  Alejandra says she doesn’t want to talk about this.

     Claudia and Roberto are in the cafeteria.  When Roberto goes to pay Paulina he takes her hands.  Claudia is bothered and asks Paulina why she is trying to flirt with her boyfriend.

     Isaura talks with Alejandra and asks that she allow Nora to live there with her.  Isaura cries and says that if she doesn’t accept Nora, she will continue damaging the family’s reputation.  Isaura and Nora leave Alejandra’s house.

     Arturto talks with Diego and says that Nora is very pretty.  Diego laughs.

     Casilda brings a letter to Alejandra.  The letter is an invitation from Pilar, a local dress designer and shop owner, to a fashion show. 

     Arturo continues to look for Nora.  Arturo asks two people in the street if they know Nora.  They insult Nora by saying that she is a waste of time.

     Isaura sits with Nora in an outdoor café having a coffee.  Nora sees Arturo get into a cab. She runs after him.  Arturto sees Nora trying to stop the taxi.  He starts to talk with Nora who asks if he remembers her.  She answer, “Yes.”  Nora asks Arturo to forgive her for her earlier aggressive attitude.  He saved her life and Nora gives thanks for this.  Isaura interrupts the conversation to ask who this man is.  Nora introduces Arturo.  Isaura tells Nora that they have to go.  Arturo asks Nora if they can see each other again. Isaura says tells him that she is sorry but they have to go.

     Paulin and Rafael argue because Paulina asks why he was rude to Renata when he took her home. 

     Alejandra takes out a portrait and looks at it. 

     Isaura argues with Nora, telling her that she should not have chased after Arturo.  Nora answers that Arturo saved her life.

     Alfredo tells Heriberto that he hopes that he recuperates from his gun wounds quickly.  Alfredo tells Heriberto that he knows what happened with Nora and Heriberto says that it is better that Alfredo say nothing.

     Arturo thinks about Nora.  Diego asks if he is still thinking about Nora.  Diego warns Arturo not to be moved by Nora’s tears. 

     Nora goes to Alejandra’s house and asks if she has made a decision.  Alejandra says that after having thought about it, the answer is still “no” and please don’t insist.

     Nora tells Isaura, “Let’s go”.  Isaura tells Alejandra , “Let’s speak privately.”   Isaura then tells Alejandra that if anything happens to Nora, it will be Isaura’s fault.  Alejandra decides that Nora can say in the house.   Isaura can visit when she wants to, but she can’t live there.

     Renata tells Paulina that she will tell Diego that Paulina can go to the dance with him.  Paulina asks if Renata wants to go and she says, yes, with your brother.  “When he kissed me I had butterflies in my stomach,” Renata says.  Paulina tells Renata that she can’t fall in love with her brother, that he is not for her.  “You two are different from one another.”

     Nora looks at the portrait of her father and thinks about how he died from unhappiness with her.  She talks to the portrait and tells him that she has remorse for the sorrow she caused him by loving a man who didn’t deserve her love.   Alejandra hears Nora talking with the portrait.  She takes the portrait of Jacobo from Nora’s hands.  Alejandra looks at the portrait with hatred.  Nora asks why.  “What did my father do to cause you to hate him so much?”

     Alfredo meets Isaura who tells him to tell Heriberto not to worry about Nora because Nora will be staying in Morelia.  Alfredo asks where Nora will be living and Isaura says that she doesn’t have to give him explanations about Nora’s life. Alfredo says that he is staying in Morelia to seek a better life.  As he leaves, Isaura calls him a clown.

     Nora talks with Alejandra who gives her the rules of the house.  She cannot waste food.  She cannot leave the lights on.  Nora can use the phone but will be charged for long distance calls.  Nora asks if she can work and Alejandra answers that she will give Nora an allowance.  It won’t be a lot but Nora doesn’t have to pay for her living expenses.  Nora can help in the house.  She will not be an employee but a guest.

     Claudia and one of her classmates are mixing something up in the front of the classroom.  They put it on the seat where Paulina, distracted looking at a magazine, sits down.  Paulina’s skirt is stained.  Claudia and her friend laugh at Paulina’s plight.

     Nora goes for the mail with Casilda who is looking for a package of video tapes.  Nora runs into Alfredo. He looks at Nora and calls her a vulgar name.   She slaps him.  Alfredo grabs Nora and at that moment Arturo arrives and tells Alfredo to let her go.  Arturo then hits Alfredo who falls to the floor.

 

Telenovela-World.  Translation by Marietta

     of Univision’s summary by candy1116: VIERNES, 18 DE JUNIO (Redactado por GIRLSINCERITY)

     June 18, 2004  English Summary  Amarte es mi pecado  Redactado por GIRLSINCERITY, Translated by Marietta

     Alfredo says that he is going to file a complaint against Arturo for having hit him.

     Renata finds out what Claudia did in the classroom to Paulina (put something on her chair that stained Paulina’s skirt) and retaliates by throwing foam in Claudia’s face.

     Casilda signs for her package at the post office.  She and Nora leave.

     Gertrudis tells Heriberto not to look again for Nora.  She has left town.  He goes to Isaura’s house and tells her that he’ll give her money for Nora.  She says that it will cost him a lot.  He says that he will pay whatever price is necessary to have her.

     Nora is at the table with Alejandra, and Casilda.  Nora says that she has never eaten at such an elegant table.  Nora says that she’d like to look at Casilda’s language tapes with her.  Casilda declines to have Nora watch with her.

     Renata and her father Julian are dining.  He asks her:  Who is going to be your date for the dance.  At that moment Alfredo who plays a song.  They hire him. 

     Silverio invents a stain remover that leaves an enormous hole in the place where the stain had been on Paulina’s skirt after Claudia played the mean trick on her.

     Casilda tells Alejandra that two men fought in the post office for Nora.  She says that Arturo works at the post office, not realizing that he is a pilot for the delivery service.

     Nora thinks about Arturo and how much she’d like to fall in love with a man like Arturo.  Alejandra arrives and wants an explanation for the fight in the post office.  Nora explains that Arturo helped her.  Alejandra says that Nora cannot fall in love with a simple messenger.  Nora asks if love exists.  Alejandra replies that live exists only in the movies and literature.  Love is a lie used to disguise failure.

     Rafa, brother of Paulina, offers to take her to her graduation.

     Alfredo tells Gertrudis that Arturo is speaking badly her and for this reason he fought with Arturo.  Isaura arrives at that point and gives Gertrudis a porcelain cat that she stole from Alejandra’s house.

     Casilda puts on make-up and perfumes.  She takes the video tapes from their packages and it turns out that they are erotic movies.  She puts labels on them that say things like “French course”.  She closes the door.  As she turns on the TV, Nora arrives and asks why Casilda told Alejandra about the fight.  Casilda said she couldn’t lie and asks Nora to leave the room.

     As Nora leaves the maid tells her that someone is looking for her.  Alejandra receives Arturo who has come to the door.  She asks who he is and why he is at her house.  He tells her who he is and that he wants to know if Nora is all right.  She tells him that he provoked the fight and not to bother Nora.  He only a messenger and she shoos him away.

     Nora tells her aunt that Arturo saved her from her suicide attempt.  Alejandra says to forget about him.  She is going to find her the best match in the region.  In the evening, Alejandra explains to Nora how to dine.  She tells her that men like two things: beauty and virtue.  She should not have sexual relations before marriage.

     Silverio is concerned that his children work too hard.  Rafa does not want Paulina to work at all.

     Renata talks by telephone with her mother and tells her about the artisan work that Rafa and his group make. 

     Casilda watches her movies as she takes food she has hidden from her closet.

     Arturo wants to clear the record and name of his father.

     Renata asks Rafa for pieces of work for her mother Kathi.  He asks her if she has a date for the graduation.  She asks if he is going to offer to take her.  He says that he is a carpenter by trade, not like her friends.

     Casilda, Alejandra and Nora are in church.  Casilda runs to meet Leonardo when he arrives.  Alejandra introduces Leonardo to Nora.  On arriving home, Alejandra slaps Casilda for taking the initiative in approaching Leonardo.  She tells Nora that Leonardo is not a good catch and don’t be too available. 

     The following day, Arturo and Nora meet each other at the fountain.  They kiss. Casilda is moved and she sees that Alejandra is coming in the direction of Nora and Arturo.

 

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JUNE 21-25, 2004

 

From Jardinera654 , translations of summaries posted on the Univision forum.  Original author’s name is in brackets.

 

Monday, June 21 (from Univision Site)  [candy1116: LUNES, 21 DE JUNIO (Redactado por RAIDER)]  translation by Jardinera654

    

     Nora and Arturo kiss once they run into each other.  Casilda realizes her madrina is walking towards them on the other side of the street and warns Nora that her Aunt Alejandra is coming towards them.  Alejandra and Don Julian meet on the street, chat and go on to his hotel to eat lunch together with her business acquaintance who’s waiting there.  Arturo tells Nora that he wants to talk to her aunt about them. –At the hotel restaurant Don Julian must leave but invites Alejandra and her friend, Pilar the dressmaker, to eat on the house, as his guests.   Nora and Casilda arrive and sit down with them.  Don Julian introduces Arturo and Diego to them all.  Alejandra brushes off the introduction to Arturo saying that yeah, she’s already met him. ---Paulina tells Renata that she needs to forget about her brother, Rafa. --- Arturo and Diego eat together, near Nora and Alejandra’s table.   Arturo can’t stop looking over at their table and he tells Diego that he’s just kissed Nora and for some reason he feels something special.   Alejandra dismisses Nora and Casilda from the table and sends them back to the house to eat as she and Pilar begin to look through their menus.  Casilda is told to make sure she and Nora stay there.  Pilar mentions that Nora is very beautiful.  Casilda tells Nora that she thinks Arturo is an insolent and shameful man.  –Diego says he’s surprised by Arturo, and tells him he thinks that it’s just him wanting to get Nora in bed.  ---Don Felipe, Diego’s father, walks through his huge hotel complex.  His pretty, blond secretary greets him.  She says it’s so nice that now his daughter is finally returning from school in New York, having finally graduated.  –Rafa keeps thinking about Renata listening to that singer, Alfredo.  –Isaura remembers what Heriberto has told her about the business with Nora.  Right then Alfredo shows up knocking at her door to tell her that Don Heriberto wants to speak with her immediately in his office. –Heriberto reminds Isaura of their deal and warns her he wants Nora and soon. ---Alejandra tells Nora that she absolutely dislikes this man Arturo and that she was unhappy with the introduction at their hotel luncheon.

     Rafa tells his dad that he’s going to pick up Paulina from school since he’s going by there this afternoon.  –Nora tells Pilar that she can work for her in her shop and then Leonardo arrives. -- Rafa discovers Paulina is working at a coffee shop at the university.   He gets angry with her and demands to know why she hasn’t told him about this. ---Arturo keeps thinking about Nora.  In her bedroom, Nora remembers her mother.  Then she realizes that her bedroom was that of her mother’s when she was young and she begins to cry.  Arturo appears in her balcony window at that moment and finds her crying.  She tells him that the picture she’s looking at is her mother’s and it makes her miss her mother so much.  He begins to kiss her.  Then Nora tells Arturo that she’s now confused.  At that moment, her aunt comes in the house looking for her.   Casilda tells her madrina that Nora has recently returned from Pilar’s boutique and Alejandra heads towards Nora’s room to look for her. 

     Nora asks Arturo to hide in her closet.  Alejandra knocks on her bedroom door and asks her how the fitting appointment at Pilar’s went.  Nora answers her aunt that she just finished discovering that this room was that of her mother’s.  –Pilar asks Leonardo how things have been going.  He answers Pilar that he needs to find a rich woman to marry.  Casilda tells her Madrina Alejandra that the servant needs money.  She passes by and then into Nora’s room and finds Arturo coming out of the closet.  He tells Casilda to be sure and tell Nora that he’s waiting for her and where.  –Rafa is angry with Paulina for not having told him that she’s working. --Leonardo arrives at Alejandra’s house.  Meanwhile, back upstairs Casilda tells Nora that Arturo has left and wants to see her later.  Nora asks that she please stay quiet about this to her aunt.  Casilda agrees and runs downstairs to greet Leonardo.  Leonardo asks after Nora and asks if she has a serious boyfriend.  Alejandra answers that Nora doesn’t, but is looking for a millionaire to marry. –Rafa asks his father and Paulina why they lied to him about her working.—Arturo can’t stop thinking about Nora.  He asks himself if in fact he’s fallen in love with her.

     Leonardo is leaving Alejandra’s and Nora offers to accompany him to the door.  Afterward, her aunt reminds her that the wardrobe is a priority.  Then she scolds Casilda and tells her that Leonardo will never pay attention to a girl like her.  –Rafa asks forgiveness from Paulina and his dad for being so one-sided and stubborn.  –Arturo and Nora meet at a beautiful area just outside of Morelia.  First, she talks about her family, her sad upbringing, and how much she misses her mother.  They kiss and he discusses his feeling about his family and how he was orphaned and how he misses his parents.  Nora agrees that they have similar feelings of loneliness in common. ---Isaura looks at the car she’s gotten out of Heriberto.  Heriberto tells Alfredo that he gave money to Isaura in order to buy a car for herself.  ---Arturo and Nora go to a cantina.  They argue over which song to request from the band. She says that “Si Nos Dejan” is her favorite.   They flip for it, and he has the mariachi band play his favorite (“Amor Eterna”) as a serenade for her.  They must finally leave each other and he kisses her.  She goes off, crying tears of emotion. –Don Clemente, Arturo’s grandfather, suffers a heart attack.  --That evening Nora gets ready for bed; outside she hears a beautiful song being played.  She realizes it’s a serenade of her favorite, “Si Nos Dejan and looks out the window.  In front of the mariachis is Arturo, standing and smiling at her as the band serenades her with her favorite song. 
A couple of minutes later Alejandra angrily runs into Nora’s room and asks her if she’s been seeing this man although she’s been warned not to.  Nora admits to her aunt that she has.  Alejandra slaps her across the face.  

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Tuesday, June 22  [marycitaa:  Resumen , Martes 22 de Junio] translation by Jardinera654

     Alejandra slaps Nora when she admits she’s still seeing Arturo and tells Nora to leave her house. She’s no longer welcome there since she’s disobeyed.  Casilda comes in with a message from Arturo saying that he’s outside and wants to speak with Alejandra about Nora.  ---Claudia and Roberto argue.  Alfredo is singing to Renata at the hotel and she pretends she enjoys it when she sees that Rafa has come there.  She pretends also that she doesn’t see Rafa standing nearby watching the two of them.    –Arturo and Alejandra discuss his feelings for Nora.  She considers him a gold-digger and asks how much money it will take to get him to leave Nora alone for good.  He tells her that he intends to continue seeing Nora and if she accepts then no one and nothing will deter him.  He leaves.  –Casilda convinces her that he’s interested but that Nora really doesn’t feel the same. Alejandra reconsiders and allows Nora to stay.   Nora thanks Casilda for saving her from being thrown out of the house that night.  She goes to bed and thinks about her day with Arturo.  –Afterward, Diego tells Arturo that Nora’s only a whim and to forget her.  At that moment, Arturo receives a call from his grandfather’s housekeeper, Choli, and finds out that his grandfather has suffered a major heart attack.

     Diego’s sister, Mirta arrives and kisses her mother and brother hello.  They’re both happy at her returning home.  –Alejandra takes Nora aside and discusses the rules for getting a husband.  –Felipe tells Diego and his sister that he’s upset that he’s dedicated his entire life to creating this hotel empire and neither of his children wants anything to do with it.  –Claudia and her friends make fun of Paulina again.  She tells them she’s decided not to go to the graduation festivities.  Claudia goes to their professor and makes her believe they are all upset Paulina has decided not to come.  She persuades the teacher to convince Paulina that she has to come.  –Casilda is watching her erotic video tapes and must quickly stop when Nora comes to her room worried about Alejandra getting mad at her all the time.  Casilda answers she’s not to pay attention to her.   It’ll pass and just think of her as the sister she never had.  –Alejandra is in her bedroom reading the old letters she was going to send to Jacobo Guzman, Nora’s dad, but had locked away instead.  She laments, saying to him that she always had loved him and yet at the same time always hated him for having chosen Nora’s mother over him.  –At Julian Quiroga’s hotel Renata, her dad, and his assistant are chatting over business when his ex-wife, Cathy knocks and enters the office.  Renata is overjoyed to see her there, all the way from her home up in the state of Texas in the U.S.  Cathy says she’s come to Morelia on business.  ---Arturo is disappointed when he receives a letter of rejection from the major airline he’d thought to apply to for work as a pilot.  Apparently, Don Clemente had gone ahead and sent the application in without his knowing.  Diego calls and asks if he’s gotten anything from the airline and Arturo tells him he’s just received a rejection from them.  Diego mentions that he’s been accepted, but doesn’t know what to do because he father’s not going to approve either way.  –Paulina and Roberto talk and he asks to be forgiven over a nasty joke played on her by Claudia at a party Paulina and he’d gone to together.  Paulina rejects his apology.

     Diego and Arturo are talking together in a restaurant.  Diego tells him that his dad doesn’t want him to work as a pilot.  Arturo asks why he doesn’t just ignore his father and do what he wants with his own life.  –Alejandra goes to Jacobo’s grave.  Isaura happens to run into her there, wanting to make her piece with him there.  She offers to give Alejandra a lift back to the house in her car.  –Nora asks Pilar to think about allowing her to work as a seamstress for her in the boutique.  Pilar answers that she doesn’t want to get into trouble with Alejandra.  –Alfredo tells Don Heriberto not to worry, that Nora is going to be his for the taking that very day.  –Nora and Leonardo are talking upstairs while one of Pilar’s fashion shows is taking place.  He asks her if she’s involved with the man he saw crawling down from her balcony window the other day.  If so, he can count on her for his silence and friendship.  At that moment, Nora is frightened and shocked at seeing Doña Gertrudis downstairs at the fashion show.  –Alejandra asks Isaura if she knows what happened to her china cat that was out on a table in the living room the other day.  Isaura denies having seen it.  ---At the boarding house, Diana sees Arturo and begins to flirt with him.  She asks him to take her dancing.  – Later the professor persuades her to go to the graduation and tells her that Juan Carlos de Orellana will be the speaker at her graduation.  Paulina sees her father at the University tells him that Juan Carlos will be there and now she’s excited to go to the festivities after all. –Isaura gets permission from Alejandra to visit Nora and take her for a little drive around the city.  –Arturo agrees to take Diana dancing and they go to a club.  –Outside of Morelia Isaura says her car has broken down and she leaves Nora in the car while she goes looking for help. –At the club a greasy thug notices Diana as they enter.  While there Diana tells Arturo she’s interested in a relationship with him, but he explains he’s met a girl he likes in Morelia and isn’t interested. The thug tries to take liberties with Diana and he and Arturo come to blows.  The thug is bounced from the club.  –While Nora waits alone in the dark inside the car for Isaura to return with help, Don Heriberto appears.  He opens her car door and begins to try to rape her.

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Wednesday, June 23  [johanna119: Resumen: Miercoles JUNIO 23, 2004] translation by Jardinera654

     Arturo defends Diana from the thug.  They fight and Arturo gets the better of the guy.  He gets bounced from the club. –Nora is sleeping inside Isaura’s broken down car while waiting for her to return.  All of a sudden Heriberto opens her car door and starts to kissing and trying to rape her.  While he’s forcing her to comply she’s yelling and screaming in desperation.  At the last moment a car stops and out jumps Leonardo.  Heriberto and he lock eyes as Heriberto runs away.  –At the club a photographer takes a quick snapshot of Diana with Arturo and she’s happy to have been rescued.  She expresses her thanks and says she’s interested in Arturo; he asks her to understand that although he has complied with his promise to take her dancing, he wants to be honest and she should not be confused by all this.   He is very much interested in a girl in Morelia.  ---The thug sneaks into the parking garage and cuts the lines to the brakes of Arturo’s car.  –Isaura comes back to her car and looks for Nora thinking that about now she should be with Heriberto.  ---Leonardo takes Nora to his apartment and tries to calm her down.  She thanks Leonardo and cleans herself up.  She says that because of his help that that pig, Heriberto, didn’t manage to compromise her.  He promises not to say anything about this to Alejandra for her.  –Isaura is alone in her house but then Heriberto comes to tell her what happened with Nora and that some man came by to stop him.  –Nora keeps asking Leonardo to say nothing to anyone about what has happened.  They laugh about the fact that Alejandra has erased him from her list of candidates because he has no money; she adds that he’s a decent man but not a good prospect for marriage.

     Heriberto tells Isaura that Nora escaped but that he still wants her and Isaura insists that she complied with her end of the bargain; it’s not her fault that somebody showed up to stop things.  She figures it was Arturo who’d come by, anxious himself to woo her and following her around.  After all, he’d given her a serenade. –Arturo and Diana leave the club in his car and suddenly they crash. –Leonardo takes Nora back home and Casilda sees them through the window.  She runs to tell Nora to hurry before Alejandra realizes she’s home.  Nora explains what has happened and asks Casilda not to say anything to her aunt about it. She agrees. –Arturo is at the hospital and explains all about the accident to the doctor. --Isaura is worrying about where Nora is right now.  Right then the phone rings and Nora it is on the other end.  She tells Isaura everything that happened and asks that she come over to see her the next day.  Isaura pretends that she was worried when Nora was missing from the car.  ----Alejandra continues to give Nora lessons about preparing herself for finding a proper husband and tells her she’s anxious to introduce her into her circle of friends, Morelia’s high society.  ---Roberto asks Pauline to be his date at the graduation dance and she balks at first.  He insists that what had happened before wasn’t really something he’d approved of, and that he’d broken off with Claudia because of it.  Paulina tells Renata this and she suggests she agree to give Roberto a chance and to go with him.  Claudia sees Roberto and asks to start dating again.  He refuses.  Then Paulina shows up and says she’ll accept his offer to take her to the graduation festivities. 

     Nora asks Isaura to take her to her father’s grave where she tells him she remembers her oath to him but that Arturo is a very good man. –Don Clemente tells Diego he’s not happy about the reputation of this woman, Nora, his grandson’s seeing.  He asks him then to think of something to say to Nora to keep her from seeing Arturo again. ---Pilar carries her dresses over to Alejandra’s so that Nora can try them on one last time.  While there Alejandra asks her manservant to help show Nora how to dance.  A bit later she mentions to Pilar that because of the accruing interest on the money she lent Pilar, it would make sense for the two of them to become business partners and then the debt could be settled. –Diego arrives in Morelia. Arturo calls him from the hospital to ask Diego to find Nora and explain what has happened so that she doesn’t worry about him. He tells Diego he’s asking because Diego is his best friend and he doesn’t trust anyone else to do this favor.

     Diego chats with Julian Quiroga and then tells him what Arturo’s grandfather has asked him to do and why.  Julian says he should probably go ahead if he feels it’s justified.  A bit later in the hotel, Nora arrives with Casilda looking to find Arturo.  She recognizes Diego and asks if he remembers her.  He looks sternly back at her and says, yes of course he remembers her. Nora says that she’s come looking for Arturo because she’s not heard anything from him for a while.  He says, “Didn’t you know?  Arturo’s meeting his girlfriend up in Mexico City.  He’s engaged to be married.”

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Thursday, June 24  [sexxydiva: Resumen: Jueves, JUNIO 24, 2004   [ Editado ]]  translation by Jardinera654

     Arturo remembers the night he saved Nora from drowning herself in the lake, and he remembers the first time he kissed her.  He thinks to himself,”Surely, Diego must be telling her why I am still here and am unable to see her.”  Diego tells Don Julian he’s uncomfortable doing what Don Clemente has asked him with Nora.  Don Julian suggests he do what he feels is best for his friend.  He’d do it if it were up to him.  A bit later in the hotel, Nora arrives with Casilda looking to find Arturo.  She recognizes Diego and asks if he remembers her.  He looks sternly back at her and says, yes of course he remembers her. Nora says that she’s come looking for Arturo because she’s not heard anything from him for a while.  He says, “Didn’t you know?  Arturo’s meeting his girlfriend up in Mexico City.  He’s engaged to be married.”   Nora’s eyes begin to tear and he continues,” Didn’t he tell you?  You were such good friends, I thought.”  Then he asks her if there’s a message for Arturo and she answers, “No.  No message.”  She turns and to leave the hotel, but then changes her mind, "Tell him I never want to see him again in my life.”  Casilda runs after asking her why is she crying for?  She answers that Arturo cheated on her and that she’s not going to cry for any man again, ever. --Diego stands there worrying about what he’s just done.  Arturo tries to call him right then from the hospital, but has to hang up because the doctor is coming out with news of Diana’s condition.  –Later, Arturo is talking to Micaela and says that although Diana is better, he’s very worried and feels guilty because Diana had told him that night of the accident that she was romantically interested in him; he’d rejected her advances and told her about the girl in Morelia he’d just met. —During all of this Nora cries in her room telling the picture of her father that “You were right, Papa.  I have to marry a rich man even though I do not love him.”  She feels guilty at again having thought to break her promise to her father because of Arturo and she cries.  Later she tells her aunt she’s definitely ready to find a rich and powerful man to marry.  –In her room, Casilda is worried that Nora, being disillusioned with Arturo will go after “her” Leonardo.  She decides therefore to manage a way to keep them separated. 

     Diego speaks to Don Julian telling how badly he feels for having deceived Nora and let down Arturo in this way.  Don Julian says that he’d have done the same for his friend.  At that point, Renata arrives, he excuses himself, and they agree to hold the graduation dance at the hotel there.  As they walk Renata tells him that she’s invited Diego as her date. –Alejandra tells Nora she thinks Nora will look very pretty in her new wardrobe and reminisces about her youth.  She promises her that soon she’ll be married in the church with one of the wealthiest families around. –Arturo keeps reading about the plane crash his father was thought to be responsible for all those years ago.  He looks identical to his father’s photo except for the heavy beard his father wore.  –Nora starts her training with which to enter high society.  She must smile, eat, drink, walk and dance a certain way.  Casilda practices all of this herself, but behind her madrina’s back. –Renata thinks about Rafa, their first quarrel, and then their first kiss and their last quarrel.  This really continues to bother her.  Her father is surprised to see her talking to herself, and makes a joke.  She asks if he’s spoken to her mother recently.  By chance, Cathy is out looking at the cooperative’s arts and crafts in the little plaza where Rafa has his displayed.   She stops and suggests he should think of exporting his work.  He replies that that has always been his dream.  At that, Cathy offers to back him in this venture. ---Isaura and Alfredo are chortling over their list of petty crimes concerning Nora, Heriberto and Gertrudis.    Isaura complains that she’s fed up with the subject of Nora, but admits that she has to worry about her own future and must act accordingly.   Alfredo says he figures that he’s going to get a bundle from his dealings with Don Heriberto and his wife.  Renata, he figures, is paying attention to him as well, and so something may come of that down the road.  He suggests to Isaura that she’d do well to find a way to ingratiate herself with Alejandra and somehow manage to live in that grand house in Morelia.

     Nora is practicing dancing with Leonardo while Pilar, Alejandra, and Casilda watch.  Pilar says that Nora has a natural gift for dance.  They are thankful to Leonardo for volunteering to assist in teaching her.  He offers that it has been a pleasure.   Casilda cannot stand his saying this and pipes up that Nora’s only going to marry a millionaire.  Alejandra reprimands her for her impudence.  Leonardo manages a small smile and says he’s sure that more than one will give themselves up to Nora’s beauty.  Nora smiles embarrassed and lowers her gaze.  –Alejandra asks after his wealthy employer and his beautiful wife, Evaristo and Gisela Lopez de Montfort.  She asks if they will be attending her party.  All this while Leonardo cannot keep his eyes off Nora and Casilda doesn’t miss this. ---As Diego is having second thoughts about what he did to Nora, Arturo reaches him on his cell.  He updates Diego regarding Diana’s condition and then asks if he’s seen Nora yet.  Diego lies and says no.  Arturo again says he appreciates his with Nora and that he wouldn’t trust anybody else to do it.  Then he has to cut the call short.  Diego by then is feeling so guilty at having lied to Nora he decides to go back to her house and tell her the truth. ---Leonardo asks Alejandra why she’s not thought to introduce Casilda to society and she laughs at him.  Casilda says her madrina has told her that no one would ever pay attention to her and she’s not going to marry ever.  Pilar suggests that with a little bit of fixing up she could attract someone.  Alejandra tells them that it doesn’t matter; she mimes that Casilda’s teeth and nose are too hideous.  Leo responds that men don’t always put exterior beauty first. As Leonardo and Nora walk toward the outer gate he tells her that she must learn to verbally defend herself without losing her composure; that this is a dirty game she must quickly learn. 

     Claudia and her nasty friends plan to do something nasty to Paulina and Renata at the graduation.  Renata greets Paulina and asks if she’s going to the dance with Roberto.  Paulina tells her to forget Rafa because he’s not right for her. ---Meanwhile, Claudia’s plan gets rolling.  She sends Alfredo and Rafa each an invitation to be her date for the graduation dance, each with a forged signature on Renata’s stationary.  Alfredo practically jumps for joy when he receives his.  Rafa is bother at first; he throws away the invitation and tramples it.  A minute later gives in and decides to pick it up and accept her invitation. –Rafa comes home and tells Paulina he has now gotten a sponsor to export his artwork to the U.S. ---Nora leave to say good-bye to Leonardo and he reminds her that she can count on him for anything.  She smiles and he tells her what a beautiful person she is both inside and out; he wishes he were rich so that he could hope to win her.  She interrupts him and asks him never to speak of love and wants to explain why she feels this way but she glances over and sees Diego walking towards them.  Without thinking she kisses Leonardo on the mouth and although he’s taken by surprise he kisses her back passionately.  Nora makes sure that although Leonardo doesn’t see Diego coming, Diego gets a good look at them “passionately kissing”.  Diego stops in his tracks and looks more closely at the two people kissing.  Realizing it’s Nora with another man he decides he was correct in lying to her about Arturo.  He turns around and goes back to the hotel.  Afterward she tries to explain to Leonardo why she’d done this but he won’t let her talk, he’s so excited.  He leaves and rushes off happy as ever.  Nora looks toward Diego walking away and says to herself, “Hopefully, Diego will go back and tell Arturo about this.”

     Arturo stays on at the hospital waiting for Diane to improve.  Don Clemente arrives and he shows his grandfather the file of information on his father and the plane crash.  Don Clemente mentions that he and his father are so much alike: determined, strong, brave, and driven.  Whenever his son started with something he continued until it was finished. –Alejandra again tells Pilar that if she doesn’t pay the high interest she’s charging her for the loan, then she’ll become her business partner in the boutique.  Pilar offers then to make an adjustment in Nora’s wardrobe.              –Diego tells Julian that he saw Nora passionately kissing some man in her doorway, right out in the street as he went back to tell her the truth.  That he said had finally convinced him that all the negative things he thought about her were correct.  He planned to tell Arturo because he had to know she’d only been playing with him.  Right then an invitation arrives for Julian.  It is for a party of introduction for Nora into the local Social Scene.  Julian states it’s now clear that they are looking to marry her off.  Diego replies that from what he’s seen it looks as if she’s already found someone.  –Alejandra is making out her final list of preparations for the coming-out party and giving instructions to the servants.  She asks Casilda what she plans to wear to the party.  Casilda says she has a dress that she wears to all events. –Rafa is renting a couple of tuxedos for the graduation festivities when Diego comes out of one of the dressing rooms.  Rafa greets him and then asks if he remembers him from a visit or two to the artesans’ plaza.  He says of course.  They discuss the fact that they both have dates for the dance but before Rafa can say whom he’s going with the sales rep hands him his two tuxedos and he says good-bye and leaves.  Alfredo also is there renting a tuxedo for the same date!

     Nora complains that the dress is now too loose on her around the waist.  Casilda says it’s surely that she has been losing weight with all the sad things that have been happening to her recently.  She suggests going to Pilar for an adjustment.  Casilda is becoming depressed at the thought of comparing Nora’s beauty with her ugliness.  –Renata complains to her mother that her day had invited his employee as his date to the graduation.  She asks her mother is she still loves her dad.  At that moment Paulina knocks at the door needing help from Renata in picking out a gown for the dance.  They decide to go to Pilar’s boutique since she’s a good friend of her mother’s and can get a good discount for Paulina.  –At the hospital the doctor tells Arturo that he’s not needed there and should go home and get some rest.  He agrees and tells his grandfather that the next day he’s going looking for the engineer that worked with his dad to see what he might know about the cause of the plane crash. He had been the maintenance engineer that fateful day.  Don Clemente loans him his car on condition he gets to come along. ---Alfredo complains to Gertrudis about the cost of renting a tuxedo for the graduation.  She gives him the money for the tuxedo.  –Isaura arrives at Alejandra’s house under the pretext of visiting Nora.  The servant tells her no one is home except Casilda watching her language tapes.   She wanders upstairs and finds Casilda in her room watching her porn videos. “Oh, so this is one of your language tapes?”

     Arturo and Don Clemente don’t get any information from the old engineer but Arturo says he’ll come back again later.  As they are stopped at a light a homeless man, pushing a cart, starts to cross the street in front of them and turns to look inside their auto.  He stops and stares, thinking to himself, “This can’t be!!  It’s Arturo Sandoval!!”  Arturo and his grandfather wonder why the old beggar has stopped and is continuing to stare at them like that. –Nora arrives at Pilar’s for her fitting and spies a beautiful raspberry-colored 2-piece gown.  She loves it and asks to try it on for fun.  Pilar says it’s a lovely gown and she was only sent two of them from the designer.  Nora caries it into the changing room as Paulina arrives.  She sees the other of the two raspberry gowns and takes it into her dressing room.  Nora comes out to the mirror and is admiring the gown; Paulina comes out to see how hers looks, also.  The two look up at each other and giggle at how they seem to have the same taste.

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June 25       [mandy16a: Resumen: VIERNES 25 de JUNIO del 2004]  translation by Jardinera654

     Nora and Paulina are trying on the same gown and look up at each other in the mirror.  They admire it on each other, giggle, and agree they seem to have the same good taste.  –Arturo thinks he recognizes the old beggar from somewhere but cannot place him.  –Isaura grabs a cassette and then blackmails Casilda with telling Alejandra about the erotic videos unless she finds a way to convince her madrina to let Isaura stay in the house.  Casilda has no other choice but to comply.  –The beggar is tormented by the memory of seeing Arturo in the car and the airplane as is flies overhead.  –Isaura keeps the video as insurance that Casilda will comply with her demands.  She runs into Nora coming in and Nora confides in her saying she’s now convinced the best thing for her is to marry a rich man.  –Claudia blackmails Roberto with showing Paulina’s scrapbook photos of him at the graduation dance if he doesn’t cancel on Paulina and take her instead.

      Isaura thinks to make a cake for Alejandra.  –Alfredo stops by Isaura’s house and she tells him that she’s going to live in Nora’s aunt’s house with her. ,--Casilda tells the cook that her madrina is lowering her pay.  When the cook complains she fires her.  –Diego tells Arturo then next time he calls about Nora that they need to talk in person about her.  Diana regains consciousness and Arturo is finally relieved and happy.  –Alejandra becomes furious about losing the cook because of the party she’s planning for Nora’s introduction.  Isaura comes in from the kitchen with a cake for her to try, claiming it’s extremely rich and delicious.  –Roberto tells Renata the he’s must tell Paulina he cannot take her to the dance after all.  She’s bitter but he leaves without further explanations.

     Casilda suggests to Alejandra that she replace the cook with Isaura.  Alejandra doesn’t like the idea at all, but because it’s too late to hire another cook she relents and takes on Isaura.  –Paulina is going the church to pray and to thank the Virgin for the marvelous evening she’s going to have.  –The doctor informs Arturo and Diana that her recuperation is going along very nicely and he leaves the hospital happy and relieved.  –The barber, Don Roque, fixes Pascuala’s hair in the meantime for her 15th birthday party and the “quinceañero” festivities. –Alejandra tells Nora it’s important that she not take the initiative in talking to a man, because if he doesn’t take the bother to cross the room to talk to one, he’s not interested.  Additionally, she’s never to stop smiling, ever. --At Pascuala’s quinceañero mass, Arturo arrives with the other’s and tells them the good news about Diana. –Paulina’s father gives her a beautiful necklace that had been her mother’s.  She’s extremely happy at the thought of going to the dance in the beautiful gown she’d just bought.  She begins looking for her scrapbook that contains the pictures of her and Roberto.   She doesn’t realize that earlier Claudia had tricked her father and she and her 2 friends gotten invited into the house.  While they kept him occupied Claudia had gone into Paulina’s room, found the scrapbook and stolen it in order to blackmail Roberto and humiliate Paulina.

     Diego feels he has no alternative but to tell Arturo by phone that he’d seen Nora and another man (Leonardo) kissing passionately at her gate out in the street.  Arturo cannot believe this at all.  He accuses Diego of lying, but Diego says no, it happened and he saw it.  Arturo’s grandfather calls to him and he has to hang up, but Diego tells him he wouldn’t be capable of lying about a subject like this.  –Isaura does all she can to ingratiate herself with Alejandra, that she should be more careful of the people she deals with since she’s certain it was the cook who’d taken that missing porcelain cat (she’d actually stolen) from the living room.  –Alfredo tells Heriberto that Isaura left the little town to live in the mansion with Nora and her Aunt in Morelia.  –Cathy tells Renata that since Roberto won’t be able to be Paulina’s date, she’d ask her good friend Juan Carlos, the class’s guest speaker for the evening, to be Paulina’s date.  –Casilda asks for her video back but Isaura says not until Alejandra allows her to stay there permanently.  –Arturo’s company calls him to fly down to Morelia since all the other pilots are already covering other flights.  He leaves the house without a word to anyone. Don Clemente comments that his grandson looks preoccupied and upset. –Heriberto calls Isaura and threatens her over the phone because he’s already paid her for Nora.

     While flying to Morelia Arturo can’t stop thinking about the phone conversation, he and Diego had concerning Nora kissing someone else.  –Nora at the same time can’t stop thinking how bitter she is at what Diego had told her concerning Arturo having a fiancé in Mexico City. She is more convinced than ever to marry a millionaire and forget about love.  –Juan Carlos Orellano hands out the diplomas at the journalism class’s graduation.  He announces Paulina as the class Valedictorian. –Arturo arrives in Morelia and now has a chance to talk to Diego about Nora.  Diego tells him that tonight she’s being introduced into society and they’re looking to marry her off to a rich man.  All of this upsets and saddens Arturo.  He cannot believe Nora would do this.  He remembers Diego telling him, “It pains me to tell you that she’s cheated on you and decieved you, but it’s better that you open your eyes and see her for what she is.  Forget about her; just forget about her!  --Nora isn’t enthusiastic about the party being given in her honor.  When Pilar asks her if she’s truly ready to renounce love for money Nora answers that she’s not giving up anything because it simply doesn’t exist.  Pilar is surprised at the rage in her words.  Nora changes the subject and thanks Pilar for having given her the dress that she liked so much.

     The graduation dinner-dance both Alfredo and Rafa present themselves to Renata and because of the confusion they show their invitations (the ones Claudia had forged and sent them) to prove she’d asked each to be her date for the evening.  Renata denies having sent them even thought they’re on her stationary.  At the last, Diego comes and says actually he’s Renata’s date for the evening and the two of them go off to the Quiroga’s table.  Rafa returns to his family’s table and Alfredo wangles his way to Renata’s by asking Julian to allow him since he has no table. –Paulina then sees Claudia and Roberto come in and she’s of course, upset but says nothing and averts her gaze.  

     At Alejandra’s the guests are waiting for Nora to come down.  –Arturo is in his hotel room and cannot stop thinking about Nora.  –Juan Carlos comes to Paulina’s table, says he’ll be her date for the evening, and asks her to dance.  She of course, accepts, and is amazed at his noticing her.  –At Alejandra’s she is introducing her niece, Nora.  As Nora descends the grand staircase in her sparkling, elegant black gown, the men in the room are shocked by her amazing beauty.  They all stand there with their mouths opened.  As Nora greets everyone from the staircase, she pauses in her little speech by a male voice she recognizes.  “Buenas noches.”  She turns around slowly and is both bewildered and surprised to see it’s Arturo in the doorway, looking gallant and handsome as ever in his pilot’s uniform.

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JUNE 28 – July 2, 2004

:English Summary  AMARTE ES MI PECADO (EPISODES 11-15) Translated By Cyn

 

     Telenovela-World:  Mon June 28, 2004

     Translated by Cyn from Univision’s Forista raider2004:  RESUMEN DEL LUNES 28 de JUNIO*** CAPITULO 11!!

     Nora is surprised to see Arturo in her presentation in society. He tells her she looks very beautiful. Nora is presented to Evaristo and Gisela. Paulina asks Juan Carlos why he asked her to be his date in the party. Juan Carlos receives a call from a woman. Renata is thankful with Kathy for having convinced Juan Carlos to ask Paulina. Alejandra tells Arturo how dare he come to her home. Claudia looks at Paulina with envy. She asks her friends if they brought what she asked them. Rafale tells his father that Renata is a flirt. He wants to leave, but Silverio asks him not ro ruin Paulina's night. Claudia makes fun of Paulina but her plan is frustrated. Arturo tells Nora they need to talk.  Roberto apologizes to Paulina for what Claudia did. Paulina says it is not important.  Juan Carlos congratulates Paulina for her creations and offers her a job in front of everyone.  Paulina is surprised. Paulina dances with Roberto.  Nora tells Arturo it is a shame she can't talk to him and that they have nothing to talk about. Leonardo tells Nora that that man is whom he saw climbing down her balcony.Alfredo is rejected to sing in the graduation party.

     Alejandra tells Nora she can't be talking to Arturo all night. Roberto sings in the graduation party. Claudia dances with Rafael to give jelousy to Renata. Renata is jelous and wants to leave. Juan Carlos says good bye to Paulina and gives her his business card in case she accepts the job offer. Nora tells Arturo they have nothing more to talk about. Arturo tells Nora that he knows tha party is to find her a rich husband. Diego asks Arturo what he is doing in Nora's party. Nora is presented to Juan Carlos Orellana. Nora sees Alfredo. Isaura asks Alfredo what he is doing there. Betina tells Nora she is sure she has seen her before somewhere. Alejandra tells her it's impossible since Nora has not lived in Morelia for very long. Betina remembers she saw her in the newspaper about the scandal in Patzcuaro. Isaura tells Betina that the girl from Patzcuaro is very similar to Nora but they are not the same person. Betina asks Evaristo for Gisela. Alfredo presents himself to Betina and Evaristo. Alejandra tells Arturo she does not want to see him near Nora. Casilda tries to prevent Arturo from leaving and asks him to fight for Nora. Alfredo dedicates a song to Nora. Nora thinks in Arturo while he leaves. Kathy asks Renata if she loves Rafael. She tells her yes, but they are too different. Nora asks Casilda what Arturo told her. Casilda answers that Arturo said she was not worth it.

     A telegram arrives at the house of Diego. Julian asks Diego for Arturo. Diego recieves a call from his sister Mirta about a telegram from the airline. Evaristo and Betina say good bye to Alejandra and Nora. Arturo is furious. Alejandra tells Nora that the next day they will close her presentation with a dinner. Nora tells Casilda that Arturo fooled her. Casilda tells her she has to clear things up with him. Nora goes looking for Arturo to the hotel and finds out he has left Morelia. Nora meets Paulina. Claudia speaks wonders of Rafael to make Renata jelous. Nora tells Casilda that Arturo has left.

     Arturo arrives at Mexico City.  Diego tells Arturo he has received a telefram from the airline. Nora remembers how her father made her swear she would marry a rich man. Mirta arrives to Mexico and sees Arturo. Arturo helps Mirta with Diegos things. Mirta asks Arturo if they can have a coffee to talk a while and he agrees. Isaura warns Casilda that if Alejandra does not accept that she live there she will show her the videos. Arturo tells Mirta he doesn't have a girlfriend. Leonardo goes for Alejandra, Nora and Casilda to take them to dinner. Alejandra accepts that Isaura stays for that day but once they come back they'll talk. Arturo accompanies Mirta to the airport. She kisses him and tells him she likes him very much.

 

     Telenovela-World:    Tue June 29, 2004

     Translated by Cyn from Univision’s Forista marycitaa: Resumen , Martes 29

     Nora is talking to Leonardo, when Casilda interrupts. Mirta says good by to Arturo with a kiss.  She asks him if they can try to have a relationship. He tells her he can't forget Nora.

     Jessica arrives with Juan Carlos Orellana when he is speaking to Julian and kisses him. Casilda tells her godmother that Isaura can be very useful. Alejandra sends Casilda to get Nora. All the ladies at the dinner party invite Nora to play. Arturo tells his grandfather that he saw Nora kissing another man. Gisela kisses Leonardo passionately. Claudia and her friends gossip about Renata's reaction when she saw Claudia dancing with Rafael.

     Isaura looks for the key to open Alejandra's safe.  At that moment Heriberto knocks at the door and tells Isaura he will be moving to Morelia. Heriberto threatens Isaura if she doesn't give him Nora he will tell everyone she sold her to him.

     Nora speaks to a guy called Osvaldo. He talks about his cattle and ranch and tells her she has impressed him because she is very beautiful and mysterious. Everybody is in the reunion. Alejandra tells Osvaldo that Nora is very valuable... that girls like her are hard to find.

     Paulina looks at the card Juan Carlos gave her in the graduation, and she decides what to do. Rafael and Silverio talk about Paulina leaving Morelia. Paulina listens and thinks about it.

     Juan Carlos tells Nora when they are at the table that it is not worth it to marry without love. In that moment Alejandra approaches them. Nora leaves and Alejandra tells Juan Carlos that nobody asked his opinion.

     Osvaldo and Nora continue to talk. He speaks of nothing more than about cattle. Leonardo's father asks him if he doesn't think that Nora is beautiful. Casilda looks at Leonardo from the distance and Alejandra arrives and pinches her.

     Renata and Julian talk about what happened with the invitations. Renata says she still feels bad about it. Arturo's car breaks down. At that moment a man passing by sees him and runs away.  Arturo remains in doubt... he does not know who the man is.  Mirta arrives at Arturo's house and Don Clemente receives her.

     Roberto remembers when he stood in the graduation to tell everybody that Claudia had stolen Paulina's notebook. In that moment Paulina arrives. Roberto asks her if she is still interested in him. Pauilina replies she prefers him as a friend.

     At Arturo's house everyone is delighted with Mirta. Paulina tells Roberto she does not feel confident about her opportunity to work in Mexico City, because her family ties are very strong and she doesn't want to leave them.

     Nora and Osvaldo continue to talk. Osvaldo leaves and then Renata arrives and they start talking about Arturo.

     Mirta finds Arturo in the street. She asks him why they can't give themselves an opportunity and try to know each other better. Arturo accepts. Renata, Nora and Jessica talk about wether Nora found interesting anything Osvaldo talked about. Nora replies she is interested in knowing a little bit of everything. Renata asks her if she would really be willing to marry just because her aunt wants her to. At that moment, Leonardo arrives and congratulates Renata for her graduation.

     Arturo is at his computer when he starts to recall his childhood. Casilda offers Nora some candy. Osvaldo approaches them. Nora observes how everybody is talking about money issues. Nora excuses herself and goes outside. There she starts thinking how tired she is that everything is about money and money. Gisela tells Renata she should work in her father's businesses.  He tells her that Renata can work in whatever makes her happiest. Juan Carlos approaches and offers Renata a job.

     Nora is sitting outside thinking when Leonardo arrives. He tells her he is very interested in her. Nora tells him she has to marry a rich man.

     Leonardo is talking to Renata and at that moment Gisela approaches them. He leaves with her. Gisela asks Leonardo if he is interested in Renata and Leonardo tells her he is only interested in her because she is a heiress.

     Arturo continues to think about his childhood and the man who played with him. He then remembers that the man who played with him is Juan Salvador; the same man who ran away when he saw Arturo.

    

     Telenovela-World:    Wed June 30, 2004

     Translated by Cyn from Univision’s Forista johanna119:  «« RESUMEN: Miercoles 30 de Junio »»

     Juan Salvador "The Bat" asks himself why he had to get back to his past, if he wanted to forget everything. Arturo recalls that when he was a little boy Juan Salvador helped him build a toy airplane, and he figures Juan Salvador was his father's friend, and that he also worked in the airport.

     Osvaldo the rancher says good bye to Nora and tells her that he will call her very soon so they can go out sometime. Alejandra overhears all with Casilda and when he is gone, he goes to Nora and tells her that the good thing with Osvaldo is that he is very rich and very dumb; in that moment the other gentleman comes to Nora and pays her her winning in the poker game.

     Renata tells Leonardo that her father is the owner of the hotel and that she lives there. Gisela gets jelous with Nora and Leonardo. Arturo asks his grandfather if he remembers Juan Salvador and grandpa says he doesn't know him. Isaura does everything she can so that Alejandra lets her live in her house.  Alejandra arrives home and Isaura shows her that she fixed all the curtains she could that day and Casilda suggests Alejandra to let Isaura stay for a couple of days more so she can finish fixing all the remaining curtains, and Alejandra accepts.

          Diego talks to Mirta on the phone and she tells him not to worry, that their father must understand that they are already adults. Juan Carlos offers Renata a job in Mexico City. Rafael tells Paulina that his life and their father's will not be the same without her. Silverio talks to Rabanito and the kid tells him not to worry so much, that Mexico City is only a few hours away, and that they can surely visit Paulina.  Nora talks to Isaura about Osvaldo the stockbreeder and that he is very rich; Isaura reminds her of the oath she made to her father and Nora tells her she has not decided yet and that she hasn't forgotten the oath.

          Alejandra tells Casilda that the food from the party they went to was to condimented and that on the other hand, the food from her home is very healthy, and she also asks her to stop ridiculizing herself with Leonardo. Arturo recalls when he saved Nora in the lake. Nora recalls the kisses with Arturo and asks herself if love has any sense. Leonardo recalls the kiss with Nora. Renata dreams with Rafael , and when se wakes up she scolds herself for thinking about such a macho, conceited guy; Rafael thinks of Renata and says to himself she is a spoiled girl.

     Renata tells Paulina that since both will be working for Juan Carlos, that they should share an apartment, and Paulina answers that she will not be going to Mexico City after all, so she can't accept her suggestion.  DIana is dismissed from the hospital and Arturo tells her that everyone will take care of her.  Juan Carlos Orellana talks to Sergio and tells him he liked being the graduation class godfather, and that he met Paulina who is very smart and that he offered her a job in his company, and that she is pretty. Paulina doubts about going to Mexico City. Nora receives flowers from Osvaldo.

     Paulina looks for a job in Morelia, but they tell her that the political and economical areas have no job openings. Paulina says she can work in the entertainment section, but the man says everything is full, that he can only offer her a job in the society news section. Heriberto looks for Nora and tries to abuse her completely drunk. Renata goes to Paulina's house and finds Rafael, and asks him not to pressure Paulina to stay because her dream is to work as a journalist. Rafael tells her not to be dumb, she tells him not to be so childish and that she saw how he looked at Claudia in the party, and suddenly Rafael kisses Renata.

          Leonardo finds Nora and Heriberto and saves her. Nora says she doesn't want to denounce him and he tries to calm her. Gertrudis gives Alfredo money and tells him he can count with her financial aid and the Heriberto arrives and she tells him that Alfredito is like a treasure. Rafale asks Paulina why she arrived so late and she tells him she went to find a job in a newspaper  in Morelia. Isaura advises Casilda to have sexual relations with a man without being married, and tells her she has had her own adventures. Mirta tells her father she is tired of everything, and tells him that Diego is in a course in the United States and that it was time he found out because they are no children anymore.

     Nora returns Casilda the money she borrowed from her to bet in the party of Zirahuen. Alejandra receives a mysterious call. Rafael gives Paulina his savings and tells her that their father or him do not have the right to take away her dreams and asks her to go to Mexico and may God be with her. Joaquin Arcado shows up with Alejandra. Nora goes out with Osvaldo without the permission of Alejandra. Felipe finds Arturo and Mirta kissing.

     Nora's aunt was sitting down in a restaurant and a man came and put his hand on her shoulder.

 

    www.telenovela-world.com:  Re: HI Paul here is the resumen  [USA, 6/30/04] Author: .Ara (---)  Date:   07-01-04 11:35 PDT

     Juan Salvador "El Murcielago" dice que porque tubo que encontrarse con su pasado, si lo que el queria era olvidar todo. Arturo recuerda que cuando era pequeño Juan Salvador le ayudó a armar un avion de jugete, y se da cuenta que Juan Salvador era amigo de su padre, y que tambien trabajaba en el aeropuerto.

     Osvaldo el Ranchero se despide de Nora y le dice que la va a llamar muy pronto para que salgan juntos, Alejandra esta escucha todo con Casilda y cuando él se va, ella se le acerca a Nora y le dice que lo bueno de Osvaldo es que es rico y tonto, en eso se le acerca el otro señor y le da a Nora el dinero que ganó jugando pocker.

     Renata le dice a Leonardo que su papá es el dueño del hotel y que ella vive ahí, Gisela se encela de Leonardo y Nora. Arturo le pregunta a su abuelo que si se acuerda de Juan salvador, y el abuelo le dice que no sabe quien es. Isaura se esmera para que Alejandra la deje vivir en su casa, Alejandra llega a su casa y Isaura le muestra que se puso a arreglar todas las cortinas que pudo, y Casilda le sugiere a Alejandra que deje a Isaura unos dias mas para que le arregle todas las cortinas que quedan y ella acepta.

     Diego habla con Mirta por telefono y ella le dice que no se preocupes que su padre tiene que entender que ya son adultos. Juan Carlos ofrece trabajo a Renata en la ciudad de México. Rafael le dice a Paulina que la vida de su padre y la de el no será la misma sin ella, el papá habla con el niño "Rabanito" y el niño le dice que no se preocupe, que mexico les queda a unas cuantas horas de ahi, que es muy cerca y que pueden visitar a Paulina. Nora le cuenta a Isaura sobre el ganadero Osvaldo, le dice que tiene mucho dinero, Isaura le dice que no se le olvide el juramento que le hizo a su padre y Nora le dice que no se ha decidido, y que a aellano se le olvida el juramento.

     Alejandra le dice a Casilda que la comida de la fiesta en donde estubieron, estubo muy condimentada en cambio la que hace en su casa es muy sana, y le dice que ya deje de hacer el ridiculo al frente de Leonardo. Arturo recuerda cuando salvó a Nora en el lago.Nora recuerda los besos que se dio con Arturo, y se pregunta si el amor tiene sentido. Leonardo recuerda el beso que se dio con Nora. Renata se sueña con Rafael, y cuando despierta dice que como puede estar pensando en ese macho creido, pesado. rafael piensa en Renata y dice que es una niña muy consentida.

     Renata le dice a Paulina que como las dos van a trabajar con Juan Carlos, que las dos deberian conseguir un departamento, y Paulina le dice que ya no quiere ir, y que no lo acepta. Diana es dada de alta en el hospital y Arturo le dice que entre todos la van a cuidar. Juan Carlos Orellana habla con Sergio y le dice que le gusto mucho ser padrino de la generacion y que conocio a Paulina que es muy inteligente, que fue la mejor de todos, y que le ofrecio trabajo en la revista, y que no es nada fea. Paulina duda de irse a la ciudad de México. Nora recibe unas flores de Osvaldo.

     Paulina busca trabajo en Morelia, pero le dicen que ya no hay puesto ni en economia ni en politica, Paulina le dice que puede trabajar en la seccion de Espectaculos, pero el señor le dice que ya todo esta lleno, que solo puede darle trabajo en la de sociales. Heriberto busca a Nora y trata de abusar de ella totalmente borracho. Renata va a casa de Paulina y se encuentra con Rafael, y le dice que no este presionando a Paulina para que se quede, porque su sueño es trabajar como periodista, y Rafael le dice que no se **beep**, y ella le dice que no sea infantil que vio como miraba a Claudia en la fiesta, y el la besa.

     Leonardo encuentra a Nora y a Heriberto y logra salvarla, ella dice que no quiere denunciarlo, y el la ayuda a tranquilizar. Gertrudis le da dinero a Alfredo y le dice que cuente con su apoyo economico y Heriberto llega, ella le dice que Alfredo es como un tesoro. Rafael le dice a Paulina que porque llega tan tarde, y ella le dice que fue a conseguir trabajo en un periodico de Morelia. Isaura aconseja a Casilda sobre tener relaciones con un hombre sin estar casada y le cuenta que ella tubo algunas aventuras. Mirta le dice a su padre que esta arta de todo, y le cuenta que Diego esta en un curso en estados unidos, y que ya tenia que enterarse porque ya no son niños.

     Nora le regresa a Casilda el dinero que le prestó para apostar en la fiesta de Zirahuén. Alejandra recibe una llamada misteriosa. Rafael le entrega sus ahorros a Paulina y le dice que su Papá y el no tienen derecho a quitarle sus sueños y le dice que se valla a mexico y que Dios la bendiga. Joaquín Arcadio se presenta ante Alejandra. Nora sale con Osvaldo sin permiso de Alejandra. Felipe descubre besándose a Mirta y Arturo

this is where it ended Nora aunt was siting down in a restuant and a man came and put his hand on her shoulder she looked a little afraid of him . that where it ended.

     .Ara

 

 

     Telenovela-World:    Thu July 1, 2004

     Translated by Cyn from Univision’s Forista sexxydiva:  Resumen, Jueves Julio 1, 2004

     Nora yields upon the insistence of Casilda and Isaura and accepts Osvaldo's invitation.  Very excited, Osvaldo shouts in excitement as he hangs the phone. Then he finds out he just hung up without saying anything to Nora and calls her again. He thanks her sincerely.

     Rafael gives Paulina an envelope with his savings. He tells her he wants her to use the money to make her dreams of going to Mexico a reality. She refuses, but he insists. She is moved.

     Alejandra waits for Joaquin Arcadio at the cafeteria when he arrives and touches her shoulder. "Joaquin Arcadio" she says without turning around. Joaquin Arcadio smiles maliciously while he touches his eybrow with his little finger. "So on time as usual my dear Alejandra, it is a pleasure to see you" he says hypocritecally. "Why do you seek me, what do you want ? " Alejandra yells back while he makes fun of her anger.

     Arturo leaves his house with Mirta at his arm and quite honeyed she tells him she is grateful for his support. "You know that not only are you my brother's best friend, now   you have become someone very important in my life". SHe kisses him and Arturo then notices Felipe is observing them from a car parked in the corner. Mirta notices and the approach the car to try to talk it out once and for all, but the chauffer drives off.  "Typical from my dad" she complains. Arturo tells her he doesn;t want her to have any more problems with her father because of him. Mirta wants to return home so his father won't take the anger off with her mom and assures Arturo if it weren't for her mother, she would've left home already.

     Paulina tells Rafael she can't accept his savings, and that besides, she doesn't need them any more because she already found a job in Morelia. He tries to insist but she interrupts once again, decided to look happy and excited with her new job. "Are you sure that's what you want?" he asks woriiedly. "Yes, yes, of course I am sure my dear brother" she tells him while she tenderly grabs his cheeks and kisses him. "Don't worry, really, you are a charm! But I'm ok. Nothing is going on, ok? "

     In the cafeteria, Joaquin Arcadio takes a drink sitting in front of Alejandra "This drink, and all my expenses are yours from now on" he says. "You haven't told me what you came for. I thought I would never see you again" she replies. "Do you forget your friends so quickly?" with a smirk. "You and I have never been friends! You arrived to my life just to get money from me and I gave it to you in return for your silence! What do you want now?" Arcadio answers he wants more money She replies she has already given him enough to never have to see him again and that she will not give him one more cent.  He laughs again and asks her to toast, even if she does it with coffee, for the good times. He tells her he imagines she has more and more money, because he knows she lends money at very high interest rates. "How much do you want Joaquin Arcadio?" she asks him, tired of listening to him. He tells her there is no rush to talk about quantities, and to please let him enjoy his drink. At that, Nora and Osvaldo enter the cafeteria and Nora immediatly sees her aunt and stops Osvaldo. "There's my aunt" she says just like a secondary shool girl who has skipped school. Osvaldo, as gushy as usual, wants to salute Alejandra but Nora stops him and tells him she doesn't wish her aunt to see her, because she went out without her permission. "Lets go someplace else" she begs worried. "Whatever you wish! You give the orders!" says Osvaldo, and they leave.

     Arturo is back to Mexico where Don Clemente explains to him that Felipe Fernandez de Lara has always been a harsh and egoistical person and explains that he comes form a family of farmers and that he has always denied it and has tried to make everyone believe that he has always been a millionaire. "That is absurd Grandfather! There is nothing as noble as work and if Mr. Felipe has come to where he is by working hard, it is twice the merit, or not?" says Arturo, convinced. "I also believe it like that" says Don Clemente, "but he is so insecure that he thinks that being humble is a sin". He then changes subjet "And tell me Arturo, are your intentions towards Mirta serious?".. "Grandfather, I talked to her honestly. I told her I am not in love with her and she accepted me like that. Mirta asked for time". His grandfather tells him it is a good time for him to think about settling down and reminds him he already has had his affairs and that the time has come that he start thinking more seriously. "As I told you grandfather, at this time there is nothing serious. Lets leave things to time. The only thing I know is that I am interested, that is all". Don Clemente is satisfied with that and asks him if he could find out anything about Juan Salvador.  "No, but there's something that tells me that man can help me clarify the accident where my parents died". Meanwhile, the 3 street kids find Juan Salvador pushing his cart of scarps in the street and tell him someone is looking for him. He asks how that person looks like. "He is blond, tall" says one of the kids and he immediatly figures it is Arturo. It is obvious he doesn't want to be found. He asks the children what they have told Arturo about him and they assure him that nothing. "Don't tell anyone anything about me. Remember... the people who live in the street like is is loyal! So please don't betray me" and then he shooes them away. 

     Nora tells Casilda and Isaura that she saw her aunt with a man. They are very surprised and they are left thinking about the mysterious man that accompanied Alejandra in the cafeteria.

     At the cafeteria, Alejandra pays the bill and Joaquin Arcadio tells the server to keep the change. Alejandra is astonished and can only babble while the server thanks them and walks away. "How nice hugh? To brag with other peoples' money" she tells him while he enjoys having bugged her. "Lets set things straight right now. I don't have the money you are asking for, Joaquin Arcadio, I don't." says Alejandra. "Bummer, I will have to sell my memories then. And guess what, you appear in almost every chapter. Here in Morelia it will sell like hot bread. What do you think?" he tells her. "Don't even think about it" she says and she then tells him that what she meant is that she didn't have the money available at that moment. Arcadio says there is no rush and informs her he will stay as a guest in her house because he doesn't like hotels. "What? In my house?" she says surprised. "And why not?" he replies. "No way, forget it!" she says. "We can say I am your speach teacher, or if you want we can tell them the truth, that you and I.... do you remember the kisses we gave each other?!" he says laughing out loud "Shut up! Shut up you stupid" she says, turning around to check that nobody has listened. "So now what, do we go to your house, or do we have another drink?" he says, while Alejandra shivers with rage.

     Arturo looks for Mirta's parents to clear things about the kiss Felipe presenced and he is received by the mother who says that maybe it is better not to worsen things. "I'm sorry m'am but I never hide. I always talk things straight out" says Arturo, and he asks the secretary to inform Felipe that he is there.

     Alejandra takes Joaquin Arcadio home and she introduces him to Nora and Casilda, and at the end, she presents Isaura as "the service". Arcadio kisses Nora and Casilda's hand gallantly. "Delighted to meet you, beauties" and Casilda giggles. "Are you from here, from Morelia?" she asks with curiosity. Alejandra hurries and answers before Arcadio does "No! The gentleman has always resided in abroad" she says. "Alejandra and I have always been very good friends of all life, right Alejandra?" he elaborates. "Yes, turns out we bumped to each other and I invited him to stay in the house for a couple of days" explains Alejandra. Casilda remains amazed and blinks rapidly... "HERE?" she asks "He's staying here in the house?" she asks increduley "Well if it is too much of a hassle I will return to the hotel..." and Casilda candidly replies "No no no! Don't misunderstand me! It is just that I find it vary rare that my godmother has invited someone to stay in the house. Yes. She has never done something like that and least..."she continues without holding her laughter "... with a man." she finishes while Arcadio laughs jovialy.  "That's enough Casildita, that's enough please. Joaquin Arcadio is someone very special" Alejandra tells her bothered. She then asks Mariano to show Joaquin Arcadio his room as she doesn't feel well. Arcadio remains in the living room and again passes his little finger over his eyebrow.

     Arturo confronts Felipe despite him sending the secreteray back to tell him he can't see him. Arturo ignores the denial and storms into Felipe's office., who asks him to leave without wanting to hear him. "First you have to listen to me. I know very well that your anger comes from seeing me with Mirta. And that's why I'm here. To tell you that problems aren't solved by turning your back on them." he says. "You are nobody to come and tell me what I have to do. But since you are already here, I will tell you what I think of you. You are a bad influence for my children. It's your fault that Diego has disobeyed me and instead of attending the hotels as is his obligation he is a lousy pilot! and if that weren't enough you have also come near Mirta to turn her against me. But I am not going to allow that, do you hear me? I will not allow that!" he  yells pointing to his chest. Ana  Maria listens behind the door. "Don't come now and pretend you are this great friend of my kids, please!!!!" he says sacrastically. "Surely, Mirta interests you because of her money, MY money" he tells him with fiercely. Arturo can't believe it, with a smile of deceipt he shakes his head trying to deny himself what he has just heard. "What a low value you give to your son and daughter" he says looking at him with pitty "Excuse me" he says and leaves the office. He says good bye to Mirta's mom  who asks him to stop seeing Mirta for some time to try to avoid problems. He thinks that is not the way of confront the problems in his life. Mirta arrives and is surprised of seeing Arturo there. When she finds out about the reason he is there she asks what happened with her father, but she finds out he was in denial and says she will talk to him.  Both Arturo and Ana Maria stop her and Arturo assures her he will continue seeing her if she wants to and she calms down. "I'm glad you aren't afraid of my dad" she says.

     "The love letters I wrote you, Jacobo... the ones I never dared to send you" thinks Alejandra while she extracts her frustrated love letters. She opens one and tenderly brings one close to her face. "In this one I confess to him my secret... my ONLY secret. To my disgrace, Joaquin Arcadio also knows about it. Why did he have to come back! Why! she thinks worriedly while a tear runs down her face. Isaura tries to extract information from the other servers. "Who can it be?" Isaura asks when Arcadio enters the kitchen "A good friend of hers" he replies, surprising the three. "I am a bit hungry... do you have something I can snack on?" he asks.

     Kathy explains Julian that Kerry, her husband, is going to London and that she would like to stay a bit longer in Morelia while Renata decides if she is going to Mexico or staying. Julian is delighted.  "Even if we are divorced, our daughter is and will continue to be the most important thing in our lives" he answers.  She asks him why they divorced, while she touches her ex-husband's face. "We discussed, fighted" he says sadly "about nonsense" she says. Julian recalls that their first years they were very happy and they are sorry that things turned out wrong. Suddenly, Kathy says good bye. Renata tells Paulina that she can't believe that she's ending up reporting society events and tries to convince her to take the job in Mexico.  Meanwhile, Leonardo asks permission to Julian to approach Renata.  At the same time, Arturo arrives at the hotel. A bit before he had asked for a change in route because he didn't want to return to Morelia, but his boss couldn't please him because Diego had gone to his training for the new job. To him it is torture to be so close to Nora and not go looking for her.

     At Heriberto's hotel, Alfredo arrives and Gertrudis runs to receive him. He says he went to buy himself some new clothes because he will be living in such a luxurious hotel. Gertridis praises Alfredo while Heriberto says "How nice of you, always worrying about making us look right". Alfredo doesn't lose opportunity to his benefit and suggests Gertrudis a great party for the inaugration of the hotel and says that he can even sing some of the songs from his new demo that he is doing for Juan Carlos and assures that he will help him be a great artist.  Gertrudis delighted says she would love to see him giving autographs.

     A little bit later, Arturo sees Nora get into a car and he follows her. Nora meets Kathy and Pilar and greets them. She says she will go up with them as soon as she asks something in reception, and from there she asks to be communicated to Osvaldo's room. "It's busy" she says, and one second later, Arturo approaches to find out what she is up to. She continues "what is the room of Mr. Osvaldo?" the employee tells her the room number and after thanking him, Nora leaves. Arturo thinks that, not only did she come looking for a man, she is also going to his room. In reality, Nora is going to Kathy's suite. She had asked for Osvaldo's room number so she could communicate directly from the suite. When she arrives at the suite, she asks Kathy if she can use the phone, and tries calling Osvaldo again to tell him she has arrived. He apologizes for not having found him before, but he was talking to his father and asks her to call him when she ends her visit so they can go down together.

     Paulina is desperate looking at the pictures of the wedding she has to report about. She feels frustrated because despite having studied so hard to be the best and of all the effort her dad and brother did she has ended doing such an insignificant job when she would actually like to report politics or something of interest.

     Nora asks Pilar if she will help her with the sewing job she had asked for. Pilar tells her she might not need to work if she marries a millionaire, but Nora insists that regardless, it would be good for her so she could save a bit of money in the meantime. Pilar tells her she is happy to help her and that they can meet the next day in the boutique. Kathy returns to talk to them and tells them she lives in New York since she divorced Julian. Pilar says it is amazing how well they get along and Kathy said they divorced amicably and that they remain friends. Nora says good bye to both ladies and calls Osvaldo to tell him she's ready.  When she leaves Pilar tells Kathy that Nora has suffered very much. "I hope she finds happiness soon" Pilar says sincerely.

     Osvaldo reaches Nora at the stairs and happily and gallantly takes her arm and looks at her with loving eyes. Arturo finds them at the end of the stairs. "I thought you were a different type of woman, but I see I was wrong" Nora looks confused while Osvaldo gets angry "What's your problem? Why do you talk like that to Nora?? hugh??"  he claims and Arturo goes against him and pushes him against the wall ready to hit him. Nora desperately stops him "Arturo, please!" and Arturo controls himself and apologizes. "Sorry, I hope you are happy Nora" he says, and leaves. "Who was that guy and why does he talk to you like that?" asks Osvaldo, as they walk towards the restaurant. "Don't give it any importance. He is nobody" she says, while Osvaldo remains looking towards where Arturo left.

     Renata is talking to Arturo. "Then you know Nora?" she asks "That's right". Arturo looks sad. "And do you know she is going to marry a millionaire?" asks Renata trying to start a conversation  "Looks like everybody knows or not?" he replies. "Yes, he is a very rich cowboy, and by marrying Nora she will accomplish all of her plans, she will have money, which is what she wants", without knowing she has just confirmed Arturo's erronouse deductions.

     Osvaldo tells Nora that his father wants to come and meet his future wife as soon as possible. Nora thinks they are going too fast, but he doesn't think so. "No, no! Not at all, I like you and I am not indifferent to you… As soon as my dad meets you we will set the wedding date with your aunt Alejandra, what do you think?" he tells her with enthusiasm. "I think it's…. ok" says Nora, but she doesn't seem convinced.

     Evaristo complains about his love life with Leonardo. He says Gisela and him do not get along well any more. He thinks it can be the age difference, distant interests. In appearance, they seem to get along well but they are bored with one another.

     Arturo turns the light in his room on and off, torturing himself with memories of Nora with Osvaldo by his side. Arturo thinks "She was in his room" and he remembers the words of his grandfather's warnings and Diego's accusations. To top it off, he also remembers Renata's comments. Paulina and Rafael have a discussion because Rafael refuses to accept Kathy's help; he doesn't want Renata to think he is taking advantage. Paulina asks him to accept the help, because Kathy offered her help before he knew she was Renata's mom but he insists he prefers to get help some place else. "Renata is right" exclaims Paulina… "I wouldn't want to say this to you but sometimes you act like a Mexican macho and become egoistical. Now tell me, what fault do the artisans have that you and Renata have problems? To them, the important thing is to export their work! You should put your personal differences to the side. The artisans trust you Rafael, don't defraud them" she says.

     Arcadio tells Alejandra he is thinking of buying a mansion in Mexico City with the money she is going to give them, and makes fun of her.  Furious, she throws to his feet a rose he has just given to her.

     Nora is sad in her room when she hears a noise, and when she turns around, she sees Arturo. "How dare you! What are you doing here?" she says, while he slowly gets close "I came to return this" he says and he kisses her forcefully. Nora gets away and is furious "How dare you!" she repeats and slaps him. He takes her by the waist and holds her close "I don't see why you are angry" he says "You know why I dare to kiss you without having the money to buy your love or your favors?" he asks trying to hurt her deeply just the way he feels "Go away! Go Away" she says getting lose from his arms "I am glad I knew the truth on time.. everyone has told me differently, but I was determined to believe in you. How wrong I was!" he says hurtfully. "Really, how wrong. You are not worthwhile Nora. Someone who sells her love.. is not worth it" he says about to cry. The pain in Nora's face full of tears is very deep. "Go away" says Nora and she slaps him again. Arturo responds pulling her towards him once again and forcing her face to his with a hand on her neck. At first she hits and pushes, but finally melts in his arms. When he lets go, it looks more like a goodbye kiss of two lovers. Nora is left as in a trance…

     Alejandra is speaking to the maid complaining about Arcadio and goes to drink a tea. Isaura takes advantage and tries to open the drawer when Arcadio walks in on her.  "Aren't you in Alejandra's room? It is obvious you are interested on knowing what is in that drawer" she lies saying she was just dusting and leaves.

     Arturo descends Nora's balcony and Alfredo sees him.  In his room, before going to sleep, Arturo recalls his last encounter to Nora with sadness. "I've got to forget you Nora. I have to forget you… But how?" At the same time Nora remembers his hurtful words "Why did he come to humiliate me? With what right did he come and tell me all that. Why did he come and torment me again with his kisses?" she says while tears roll down her face. "why, why WHY!" she cries desperately. Nora wakes up in the morning still crying. "Arturo, despite everything I love you, I love you with all my soul. Why, why did things complicate this way?" she desperately thinks.

     Renata tells her dad she is thinking of going to Mexico even if Paulina doesn't go.  Hilda reminds Julian that Leonardo went looking for Renata. Renata is surprised. Hilda thinks he is a good suitor, even if he doesn't have money. Renata says that that is not important to her.

     Alfredo tells Heriberto he saw Arturo climbing down Nora's balcony. Heriberto is furious thinking that someone got ahead of him. Gertrudis approaches and thinks they are having a discussion because of Heriberto's attitude but both lie to her and she calms down.

     Alejandra and Casilda eat and Casilda giggles quietly seeing her godmother worried. She asks if something is wrong. Alejandra denies it.  She asks for Arcadio and then she tells Casilda she is going to Mexico with Arcadio. "What for, if you never go anywhere?" says casilda. "Note, that I don't have any reason to explain everything to you" replies Alejandra. Nora arrives and standing behind Alejandra and making a sign to Casilda tells her not to say anything.

Renata believes Paulina should apologize to Juan Carlos in person and asks her to go with her to Mexico. She thinks that maybe being there, Paulina can change her mind and take the job.

     Arcadio says good bye to Nora and Casilda by kissing their hands. Casilda even blinks quickly like in the silence movies.  "And are we going to see you again?" asks Casilda "I think so, right Alejandra?" he says. "I don't know, because Arcadio, at your age… who knows, no?" she says. Casilda can't hold her laughter, but gets a hold of herself and just says "Si". Nora asks when she will be back and Alejandra says she will call them.  When Arcadio finds out they are going in the bus he refuses  and forces Alejandra to make air reservations.

     Arturo's grandfather desires something serious to happen between Mirta and Arturo despite her father. Manolo asks him if he is interested in Diana.  Arturo says that only as the good friend she is.

     Heriberto pressures Isaura once more saying that he thinks someone else already took Nora's virtue from him. Isaura swears Nora is a virgin. "I don't believe you, but if it is true, there is only one way of proving it, and you already know what it is" he says.

     Renata tells Paulina that she met Diego's friend that she hasn't been able to introduce to her. Paulina says she is not interested in meeting him, but Renata insists that she will introduce them.

     Mirta is sad waiting for Arturo. "Mirta! I was coming to see you this moment. How is the situation with your father going?" she says "It's the same, with him, there's no remedy.. he is so harsh… sometimes I get the impression he doesn't love anybody in the family" she says worried. "No, no, no, don't say that… the thing is he loves you, but his way" he says to calm her "Thanks for being with me in these moments Arturo. Now is when I most need your company" she says thoughtfully "I will be at your side whenever you need me" he replies. "Arturo, I have been thinking… would you marry me???

    

     Telenovela-World:  Fri July 2, 2004

     Translated by Cyn from Univision’s Forista diosaelectrica:  RESUMEN DEL VIERNES 2 JULIO REDACTADO POR (XLABEBA Y GIRLSINCERITY)   [ Editado ]

     Joaquin Arcadio refuses to take a bus to Mexico City, and tells Alejandra to notify him when she has bought airplane tickets instead. Arturo and his grandfather talk about Mirta and her father, Arturo says ho tends to prejudge people, but Don Cliemente tells Arturo that Mirta and him are already adults. Renata plans in introduction Paulina to Arturo.

     Arturo and Mirta get together and they talk about her dad; she is ashamed with Arturo because of her father. Mirta asks Arturo if he would marry her, he replies he is not in love. She apologizes and tells him that because of the issues of her dad she might be trying to get a quick fix. He tells her not to rush.

     Claudia talks to her friends about her plan to conquer Rafael to get revenge with Paulina and Renata.

     Heriberto surprises Isaura while she leaves the house and threatens her, he tells her he needs to know if Nora is a virgin or not. She reassures him yes, but he wants proof.

     Nora speaks with Gisela and turns down the invitation to play cards, but Casilda convinces her so that she can  make some money, but advises her not to tell Alejandra she will be playing.

     Alejandra tells Isaura she will let her stay in the house only until she returns from Mexico. Isaura tells her she will fix the curtains and Alejandra says only until she finishes fixing all the curtains. She tells her she won't be able to pay her, but still, she is living there for free, eating, consuming water, electricity, etc.

     Nora asks Alejandra for permission to go to Gisela's house, she lets her go, but warns her not to play. Roberto goes to Paulina's house, but she's not there, suddenly Claudia arrives and kisses Rafael.

     Isaura makes fun of Heriberto because he wants a virgin and she plans something with Casilda and Heriberto.

     "El Murcielago" is in his house looking for something, throwing stuff around until he fins a picture of Arturo Sandoval senior, and he recalls a conversation where he had told him he had been promoted, that he would be in the control tower. He tells himself that Arturo was his friend and he failed him.

     Nora is playing and winning. Betina insists she has seen her on the paper.

     Roberto looks for Paulina at work and she tells him how is it possible she studied so much and now she ended up in the society section of a local newspaper. He tells her about another job. They say goodbye amicably.

     Claudia and Rafael go to the restaurant on Julian's hotel for dinner and he is very uncomfortable. Renata arrives and complains to Claudia about the invitations, but she defends herself and hugs Rafael, making Renata feel awkward.

     Nora wins and decides to go home early. At that Evaristo offers her to invest the money so she can multiply it.

     Paulina requests her boss to change her to work in the cultural section, but he refuses and treats her bad.  He tells her she will remain in socials until he says so.

     Mirta goes to see her father, but he does not receive her.

     Claudia kisses Rafael and later feigns innocence and asks for forgiveness and leaves. Rafael is impressed.

     Betina goes to the newspaper and looks for the edition where Nora appeared.

     Alejandra and Joaquin are in the tailor shop with a designer trying on the most expensive suits, and she buys them for him.  Betina arrives showing Alejandra the paper with Nora.

     Nora is talking to Leonardo and downheartedly tells him that things with Osvaldo are very serious and he tells her that Renata's father has given him permission to see her, he also tells her that they will have a lot of money, but they won't have love and they will be unhappy. When they say goodbye, Leonardo tells Nora he loves her and if he accepts him he would marry her forgetting everything else. Casilda listens to it all. Nora says no, it is insane. Leonardo steals a kiss just while Arturo arrives.

     Arturo visits Nora at her home and asks her who is her suitor, Leonardo or the cowboy, and tells he no other explanation is better than what he's just seen.

     Alejandra denies to Betina that the girl on the paper is Nora, but Joaquin arcadio confirms it is Nora. Osvaldo says hello to Carmelo his dad who has just arrived from Mexico and surprises him with his wedding gift: an airplane of his own.

     Juan Carlos Orellana congratulates Mirta for her excellent photographic work and offers her a job, which she accepts. Betina tells Alejandra she owes her a favor.  Nora tells herself she is not in love with Arturo. Casilda goes to see Arturo. Osvaldo tells Alejandra that Carmelo wants to meet Nora. Casilda explains to Arturo that the fault is Alejandra's and Arturo says Nora is the cuplrite, and she is not who he thought she was. Paulina is going crazy with all the documents she needs to organized to be accepted at the new job and Renata invites her to the hotel to introduce her and Arturo. Paulina calls Renata and refuses to go. Isaura tells Casilda she must take advantage of any opportunity to be with a man.

     Osvaldo Quintero introduces Alejandra to his father. Joaquina appears and Carmelo thinks he looks familiar. Nora arrives and Osvaldo introduces them. Osvaldo asks Nora if she will marry him anytime. Nora thinks about it a while and says whenever he wants. Carmelo says goodbye and tells them about the wedding gift.

     Alejandra and Joaquin go to Mexico. Paulina wakes up, she has organized everything but doesn't know what time it is. Casilda eats Fifi's food and tells Isaura she wishes to be held by a man. Paulina leaves her house in a rush and runs into Arturo and all her work flies and falls to the floor. She looks at Arturo and is stunned.

 

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USA, 7/5-9/04

 

 

     www.telenovela-world.com:This Was On Fire Last Night! [USA, 7/6/04] Author: Alexis (---) Date:   07-07-04 10:01 PDT

     Uyyy! **whif** **whif**<--My poor Imitaiton at Isaura's chiflados.

     Anyways, where to start......

     -Paulina meets Arturo again (I would be happy , but Arturo goes with Nora! I love how theyre doing this, I want Paulina to be hapy, but they're making her fall for Arturo which is making her not good, so you dont like her and you do, this is freaking crazzzzyyyyyy!!!)

     -Casilda's hilarious's "first time". (OMG ROTFLMAO!! did you all see the day after, how she was all happy, and asked to eat everything!)

     (Yes Nora, Im a woman now, Nora. Leonardo will want a real woman, Nora. I ate the cat's ham, Nora)

     -La Tia's Secret revealed (I cant believe la tia was showing **gasp** emotion! Now things make more sense as to why she treats Casilda like that)

     -Isaura finds out everything. (too bad for La Tia, yet another pest to come and torment her.)

     -Arturo Goes to fund out about his father's incident.

     -Isaura hints, LOL at that scene: Why you two look like......SISTERS!!!!!!!!!

     Re: This Was On Fire Last Night! Author: DebJean (---) Date:   07-07-04 11:34 PDT  things were moving slow....and then in one hour a whole lot of juicy stufff occurred.  Casilda's first time was like circus sex....including all the key ingredients...a dirty old man and a crazy young lady...the candles, the mask and especially the crazy costume!!!  Nora's crying for Arturo..but then a sign of her strength....asking Pilar for Paulina's name...I saw Nora's eyes...yes she has the potential to be a strong willed women....the spark is there!  Paulina and Arturo....the flashbacks....I especially like when Arturo sees his kiss with Nora and then Paulina and the differences are evidient to us and to him....I like that.  I like Paulina's innocence and her willing to fall for Arturo soooo quickly, though we know it will happen evidently.  Tia's big secret revealed...I liked the way the novela revealed the secret....have that bearded old man retell the secret to Tia and have Isaura reading the love letters...good job!!  Although I have to admit I feel for Tia....let the blackmail begin!!!  And YES....Isaura's teasing about C and N being like sisters....LOL!!!  I can't wait until today....  I am enjoying this novela....

 

     www.telenovela-world.com: Last night... [USA, 7/8/04] Author: DebJean (---) Date:   07-09-04 08:02 PDT  Gisele's hubby WANTS Nora bad. He is a bit odd looking. I thought he was going to be a good guy but he is gonna be a big pervert. Liked he said to Leo...nothing in this world is free. He seems like a snake in the grass.  I felt a bit sorry for Paulina...bumping into Arturo...and each time he was hugging another woman. It was actually funny!! But it was interesting that Arturo shared his feelings about Nora with Mirta. The world is truly a small place especially in novelaland!  Alfredo the creep...yuck...I don't like this character at all. He was sucking face like a dog in heat...Isaura should get rid of him and soon! He really is not singing?? Is he doing the Brittney thing....lip syncing???

 

AEMP – Week #4 (July 5th – July 9th)

Summaries by Beatriz

     Telenovela-World (Beatriz): Monday – July 5th 

     Paulina yells at Arturo for his carelessness.  He humbling offers his assistance, but she’s hysterical and continues to yell at him.  Arturo calms her down and suggests they go to a nearby café and organize the files; she reluctantly accepts.

     Isaura tells Casilda she must be certain of what she’s about to do because she doesn’t want her to accuse her of forcing her to do anything.  Isaura smiles maliciously, as Casilda assures her that she won’t say anything and Isaura explains that she must follow her instructions closely.

     Alone in her room, Nora compares the kiss Leonardo just gave her with her first kiss with Arturo.  With sadness she realizes she is in love with Arturo and tells herself Arturo’s kiss was one of love as Leonardo’s kiss was a stolen one.  Isaura abruptly enters her room and informs her that she has scheduled an appointment with Heriberto Reyes at the house that evening to discuss his actions against Nora.  Nora is surprised, but decides to stay at Pilar’s home that night.

     In the café, Arturo and Paulina finish reorganizing the files.  She remains upset with him and is infuriated when the waiter confuses them for a couple.  Arturo asks her to lunch as a peace offering, she refuses, but he tells her he will be there at 2:30pm.

     Juan Carlos tells Sergio he hired Mirta to work as a photographer for the company, but Sergio does not think it is a good idea.  However, Juan Carlos reaffirms his belief that it is necessary to give young people opportunities.

     One of the artists that work with Rafael, finds Arturo’s cellular phone and gives it to Silverio.  He is fascinated by its technology.

     Sergio continuously asks about Diana’s recovery and sends well wishes with Micaela.  She asks him about his family and he responds that his wife is once again visiting their children in the United States.

     Casilda enters Nora’s room and tells her to go ahead and marry Osvaldo because Arturo has confirmed to her that he has a girlfriend.  Nora cries because for a moment she thought that Arturo was different from other men.

     Alfredo shows his CD to Gertrudis and Heriberto.  Suddenly the phone rings and it is Isaura telling Heriberto he will have his merchandise that night.  He can barely contain his happiness as Gertrudis looks on suspiciously.

     As Nora goes down the stairs she hears Isaura talking about her to someone on the phone and demands to know whom she was speaking with.  Isaura quickly turns things around until Nora calms down.

     Evaristo tells Leonardo to open a brokerage account in Nora’s name.  He is surprised and tells him the amount is too small to start an investment.  Evaristo tells him to add it to one of his other accounts.  Leonardo is concerned and asks him to explain his intentions, but he refuses to answer any further questions.  He does tell him that soon he will find a way for Nora to pay him back because nothing is free in life.  Leonardo is concerned with his boss’ words.

     Alejandra and Joaquin stay in Felipe’s hotel in Mexico City.  As they are checking in, Felipe watches them and is upset by Joaquin’s presence.  Meanwhile, at the Madrigal house, Isaura hires a locksmith to open the drawer where Alejandra keeps some private things under lock and key.

     In Morelia, Paulina accepts the job at the library.

     Carmelo continues to wonder where he knows Joaquin Arcadio from and orders an investigation on him.

     Arturo waits for Paulina in the restaurant and she smiles when she enters and sees him.  As he pulls the chair back for her to sit down, he face suddenly changes as he sees Nora and Osvaldo enter.  Nora and Arturo exchange looks full of pain and resentment.  She tries to convince Osvaldo to take her elsewhere, but he refuses.  The end up sitting in the table next to them as Paulina looks around in confusion because Arturo cannot take his eyes off of Nora.  Meanwhile, Osvaldo gives Nora a small box and asks her to open it.  As she opens it, he proposes.  She tells him that it is too soon to talk about marriage, but he insists and begs for her to accept him.  She lifts her head looking for Arturo’s eyes and says yes.  Ecstatic he begins to jump up and down yelling that she has just agreed to marry him.  Paulina looks upon the “happy” couple and smiles, but as she turns to look at Arturo she is surprised to see his expression.  She decides to leave because of his strange behavior.  In desperation, Arturo, without losing sight of Nora, grabs Paulina and kisses her.  Infuriated, Paulina rushes out of the restaurant, as Nora’s eyes fill with tears.  Arturo then follows Paulina and she slaps him and tells him she never wants to see him again.

     Alone in his office, Felipe contemplates some old photographs of Joaquin Arcadio and is surprised to have seen him again after all of these years.

     Isaura and Heriberto meet in a plaza to discuss his next encounter with Nora.  She sets a number of rules he must follow during their meeting confusing him, nevertheless he agrees.

     Roberto applies for a job in the Orellana Organization and after an exam is accepted by Juan Carlos to work with Sergio.  Just as before with Mirta, this upsets Sergio and he reluctantly accepts him.

     Arturo cannot stop thinking about Nora and suffers as he remembers she accepted Osvaldo’s proposal.  Without wanting to he thinks about Paulina and smiles about the kiss he gave her.  He then reaches for his cell phone and realizes he has lost it.  He reaches for the telephone in his room and dials his cell phone.  Silverio answers and he proceeds to explain how he got the phone.  Silverio gives him directions to his home.

     Isaura calls Nora at Pilar’s boutique to ensure she will not be returning to the house for the evening.

     Casilda’s bedroom is filled with arabic mood music and a nervous Casilda dress in a genie-type outfit has some doubts.  Nevertheless Isaura is there to convince her she must go through with the plan and reconfirms the rules she set.  Casilda reassures her that she will not talk, nor take of her mask or does anything that will let him know who she really is.

     Arturo goes to pick up his cell phone and as he is about to leave is surprised to see Paulina enter the house.

 

     Telenovela-World (Beatriz):    Tuesday – July 6th 

     As Silverio tells Arturo about his son and as he begins to mention his daughter, Paulina arrives.  She quickly ushers Arturo out of the house and refuses to tell him her name.  Later that night she thinks about the kiss that Arturo gave her, which was her first kiss.  As he walks back to the hotel, he thinks of his kisses with Nora and when he thinks about the kiss he stole from Paulina, he smiles.

     Jessica tells Juan Carlos about the new modeling contract that she signed.  It will require her to travel to Europe for a while.

     Isaura contacts Nora and reminds her not to return to the house that night.  Soon after, Heriberto arrives and enters the room where ‘Nora’ is waiting for him, when in reality it is Casilda disguised in a mask.  She seems shy for a moment, but then rushes to take his shirt off.

     Diana is talking to Clemente when Mirta arrives looking for Arturo.  Diana is annoyed to find out they are dating.

     Alejandra calls Isaura from Mexico City to check up on things and notices that Isaura is acting strangely.  She hangs up with her feeling unsettled by her attitude.

     After she hangs up, Isaura runs up to the rooms to check on Heriberto and Casilda; she realizes everything is fine.

     Micaela introduces Clemente to Roberto and explains that he is her new co-worker and would like to rent a room from him.

     Heriberto exits the room ecstatic and thanks Isaura for making good on her promise and hands her an extra handful of money.  After he leaves, Isaura enters the room to find a satisfied Casilda lying on the bed.

     Arturo tells Diego that he is still in love with Nora.

     Meanwhile at the Madrigal house, Nora shows Isaura her new engagement ring.  Just then, the locksmith, Isaura had contacted, arrives.  Once she is able to access the drawer searching for a “jackpot” she is momentarily disappointed to see that all she was hiding were letters.  Nevertheless, she begins to read the letters and soon realized she had struck gold.  She found out some priceless information about Alejandra haven been in love with Jacob.  Downstairs, Nora shows Casilda her engagement ring.  Casilda was excited for her because now Leonardo would not pay any attention to Nora.

     In Mexico, Joaquin threatens Alejandra with telling everyone that she slept with Jacob while he was married to her sister and that she had his child.

     Isaura continues to read through Alejandra’s letters and discovers that she had a daughter with Jacob, Casilda.  She gets very excited because now she will have ammunition against Alejandra.

     At the Hotel Villareinal, Osvaldo calls his father and tells him that Nora accepted his marriage proposal.  Once they hang up, Carmelo contacts a detective to investigate Joaquin Arcadio.

     Renata tells her parents she is going to Mexico City to work for the Orellana Organization.

     Alfredo pays Juan Carlos a visit to demonstrate his sing capabilities.  He promises to help him if and when an opportunity should arise.

     Renata goes to visit Paulina and tells her she has decided to take Juan Carlos up on his job offer.  She tells Paulina that she should reconsider because this is an opportunity of a lifetime.

     Arturo asks a man who knew his father about the day of the accident.  He suggests that he speak with Juan Salvador.

     Paulina confesses to Rafael that she resigned from the local newspaper because of the way she was treated there and that now she will be working at a library.

     Casilda tells Isaura how much she enjoyed her encounter and that she would like to meet with the man again.

     Rafael rushes to the airport to tell Renata how much he cares about her, but the airplane had just taken off.  He sadly returns home.

     Heriberto happily returns home and Gertrudis looks at him suspiciously.  She yells at him that he better not be fooling around because she will kick him out.  After she leaves, Isaura pays him a visit to set up another meeting with ‘Nora’.

     As Casilda makes her bed, she finds Alejandra’s will.

     Arturo sees Juan Salvador and asks him to explain what occurred the day of his father’s plane crash.

     At the last minute, Nora prepares for a modeling show, which Pilar asked her to participate in.

     Juan Salvador confesses to Arturo that he is to blame for the accident.

 

     Telenovela-World (Beatriz):    Wednesday – July 7th 

     Juan Salvador tells Arturo that he needs to tell him everything that happened because he needs to pay for what he did.

     At Pilar’s boutique, Nora tells Pilar that she a happy that she was able to help her and Pilar is grateful to her.  Both of them promise not to tell Alejandra.

     As Arturo walks down the street, he runs into one of the homeless boys who tells him that Juan Salvador is ill and will die soon.

     Nora continues to model, but leaves when she sees Gertrudis.

     Casilda searches through Alejandra’s belongings and finds the will, which states that she is her sole heir.

     Kathy and Julian sadly discuss their daughter’s decision to move to Mexico City and full of emotion share a tender kiss.

     Heriberto daydreams and gets excited thinking about his next encounter with ‘Nora’

     In Mexico City, Alejandra tells Joaquin that she wants to return to Morelia, just as Felipe approaches them and hands Joaquin an envelope.  Joaquin is surprised by this and takes the envelope with him upstairs.  When he is alone, he opens it to find various pictures of himself as a young man.  Alejandra arrives as he is looking at the pictures and hands him a check and tells him to leave her alone.

     Arturo speaks with a doctor regarding Juan Salvador’s illness.  He discovers that he has a tumor and will have a painful death.

     Gertrudis wonders why Nora was in the modeling show because it would be impossible for her type to be in such a classy show.  Nora returns home and Isaura urges her to rest.  She quickly gives her various sleeping pills.

     Paulina decided to accept the job at the Orellana Organization and bids farewell to her father.  She cries and tells him how much she is going to miss him.  He tells her that it is for the best that she follows her dreams without any obstacles.  They have a teary good-bye and she asks Rabanito to take good care of her father.

     Leonardo asks Julian if he may court his daughter.  Meanwhile, Renata arrives at Diego’s house and asks for Felipe.

     Mirta goes to visit Arturo and he tells her what has been happening with the investigation.

     Heriberto arrives at the Madrigal house for his meeting with ‘Nora’, while Isaura makes certain Nora is sound asleep.  A short while later, Alejandra walks into the house and calls out each person’s name wondering where everyone is.  As she walks into one of the rooms, she finds Heriberto and Casilda in the middle of their encounter. Alejandra is horrified when she realizes what occurred.  She insults and tells Heriberto to leave her house.  She then turns and tells Casilda to leave her house immediately.  Just then, Isaura walks in and tells Casilda to go back to her room while she talks to Alejandra.  She does not want to listen to her, but Isaura tells her that she knows her secrets.  She tells her that Casilda is the daughter she had with Jacob and that she cannot deny it.  She blackmails her with this information and makes her promise that both she and Casilda can stay in her house.

     When Felipe looks for Joaquin, he finds that he had already left the hotel.  Joaquin looks at the pictures and wonders what is going on.

     The following morning during breakfast, Nora notices that Alejandra is acting strange and seems too quiet.  She apologizes to her for not welcoming her the night before, but she was asleep because Isaura had given her some sleeping pills.  As she is telling her this, Isaura walks into the dining room with a large tray full of food and sits at the other end of the table.  Nora is surprised to see Isaura not dressed in her maid uniform and with so much food.  Isaura explains that these are the new house rules she and Alejandra decided upon.  Nora remains confused.

     Felipe finds Joaquin Arcadio and tells him that he is his son, but he denies having any children.  Felipe shows him a picture of a young woman with a child, which surprises him.

     Rafael cries when he leaves his sister in Mexico City.  At the Orellana Organization, Juan Carlos welcomes Renta and Roberto as new reporters.  He continues by saying that he still needs one more person to complete his team and presents Paulina.

     Diana sees Mirta and Arturo kiss.

     Juan Carlos explains the new project to the team and hands out some paperwork for them to read.  He tells them to be objective and original.

     Juan Salvador is frightened by the sound of an airplane flying overhead.  Arturo walks into his hiding place and asks him why the sound affects him so much.  He tells him he does not want to remember the past because it torments him.

     Nora asks her aunt why she is so quiet when Osvaldo arrives with his father.  They tell Alejandra that they have come to ask her for Nora’s hand in marriage.

 

     Telenovela-World (Beatriz):    Thursday – July 8th

     Arturo tells Juan Salvador that he will not be pressing charges against him because of his illness.  He is not sure he will ever be able to forgive him, but he does know that sending him to jail will not solve anything.  He thinks things are better this way and leaves.

     Osvaldo apologizes to Alejandra for not waiting to ask Nora to marry him.  She was unaware of the proposal.  Nora explains to Osvaldo that her aunt returned the night before and they have not had a chance to talk.  Alejandra tells them she was not expecting the news so soon, but she gladly accepts.  Just then, Isaura rushes down the stairs and yells to Mariano to bring out a bottle of champagne to celebrate.  Carmelo wonders who she is and she presents herself as Nora’s stepmother.  She clarifies that they had met before, when she had been assisting Alejandra as a maid.  She tells Carmelo that as Nora’s father’s official widower she too gives her permission for the marriage.  Horrified but poised, Alejandra has not choice but to go along with Isaura.  Everyone toasts to the happy couple.  Isaura then beings to make eyes at Carmelo and asks him if he has ever thought of remarrying, since he is still so young.  He uncomfortably tells her no and walks away.  As he leaves she tells him that he should think about it.  She proceeds to say a typical rude saying and whistles.  Everyone is uncomfortable by her actions.

     Arturo tells the engineer at the airline about Juan Salvador.  He is surprised and asks him if he is going to press charges, but Arturo remains firm with his decision not to.

     Alfredo calls Gertrudis to ask her for more money and she worries about him.  He tells her that he is not eating well, as a woman urges him to hang up the phone.  He signals her to stay quiet as she goes up to him and kisses him.  Gertrudis is upset by this news and tells him she will be depositing additional money into his account.

     Heriberto is scared that Gertrudis will discover what occurred with Casilda.  Isaura calls him to set up another meeting with Casilda, but he is insulted.  She tells him that he got what he wanted, a virgin and that those are difficult to find.  She claims that if Alejandra had not walked in on them, they would be happy now.  Infuriated by her lies, he demands his money back.  He threatens her, but she reminds him that it is his wife’s money and she threatens him with telling Gertrudis about Casilda.  She makes sure he knows that things are different now and tells him that if he is interested in meeting with Casilda again, to let her know.

     At the Orellana Organization, a meeting is underway regarding the new magazine project.  Paulina gives one of her ideas for the magazine and Sergio tries to play it down by saying it is not good.  Much to his dismay, Juan Carlos is fascinated by the idea.

     At the Madrigal house, Alejandra suggests they decide on a wedding date.  Osvaldo asks Nora which day she would like and she looks at her aunt.  Isaura steps in and says in one month.  Nora turns pale and Alejandra tells her that three months would me more prudent, but Isaura insists that it take place in a month.  Carmelo and Osvaldo both agree.  Alejandra tries again to push the date further back by saying that her niece’s wedding should be a grand event.  Isaura refuses to back down and says that Carmelo can see to all of the details.  She insists in a cathedral wedding and Osvaldo replies that he will get married wherever Nora wants.  Carmelo tells them to just give him the information and he will take care of everything.  Alejandra smiles and tells him that he is a true gentleman.  As they leave, Osvaldo asks Nora for a kiss, but she simply refuses.  Embarrassed he says goodbye.  Once they leave Alejandra tells Isaura that she embarrassed her in front of their guests.  Isaura makes fun of her and taunts her with telling Casilda she is her mother.  With a malicious smile on her face, she asks Casilda why she calls Alejandra her Godmother.  “Is she your Godmother for your baptism, first communion or confirmation?”  She then turns to Alejandra and asks her the same question, but she just turns around without answering her and goes up to her room.  Satisfied, Isaura turns around and Casilda innocently tells her she thinks Alejandra’s her Godmother for her baptism.

     Arturo enters a church and asks God for forgiveness for having strayed away from church without realizing just how much he needs him.  He tells him that he is not a man who holds grudges nor desires vengeance.  For this very reason, he has decided not to press charges against Juan Salvador even though he is responsible for his parents’ death.  He also understands that Juan Salvador made a mistake and did not intentionally hurt them.  He asks God for help to forgive him and to find inner peace.  He quietly bows his head and continues to pray.

     After a business meeting, Sergio welcomes Diana back to work.  He tells her that with her experience she should be able to be his personal assistant.  She is excited at the prospect, however is unsure of her capabilities.  He assures her that she is very capable and invites her to dinner to discuss the possibilities.  She tries to refuse and he makes her feel uncomfortable.

     Nora tells Casilda she is confused by Isaura’s new attitude and Casilda says she is even more surprised the Alejandra has allowed it.  Nora notices that Isaura is even wearing one of her aunt’s broaches.  Both of them are curious to figure out what is going on between them.

     In her room, Alejandra desperately paces around her room trying to figure out how she is going to get rid of Isaura.  She regrets the day she allowed her to enter her home.  Meanwhile, Isaura washes a large knife in the kitchen and thinks to herself that Alejandra is not stupid and will not stand by idly.  She decides to get her out of the way.

     Leonardo arrives at the Madrigal house to visit with Nora, but Casilda who happily receives him at the door is barely noticed by him.  He walks right past her and greets Nora.  She welcomes him and asks him the reason for his visit.  He tells her that Gisela asked him to pick her up for a poker game she is organizing at her house.  Nora does not think her aunt will allow her to attend, but Isaura walks in and tells her and Casilda to go.  When she agrees, Leonardo notices her engagement ring and asks her what it means.  Before she could answer him, Casilda enthusiastically tells him that he will be the first to know that she will be marrying Osvaldo in a month.

     At the hotel, Osvaldo is jumping for joy, but he notices his father is quiet and serious.  He asks him what is bothering him.  Carmelo tells him he is waiting for some information he requested, which he will hopefully receive before the wedding.  Osvaldo is confused by his answer, but he is so happy that he simply ignores his father’s strange mood.

     As Nora goes upstairs to change for the poker game, Leonardo rushes up to her and tells her, “If I had money, I would not allow this wedding to take place.”  Surprised, Nora asks him “Why, Leonardo?  I do not love you.”  Casilda listens behind a door.  Leonardo insists that she would love him because he would know how to win her love.  Casilda is infuriated and thinks about how much she hates Nora.

     Paulina leaves the office in search of a phone when she walks past Arturo.  She continues to walk and remembers the kiss they shared and turns around to make sure it is he.  Arturo also recognized her and turns around as well.  Just as she is about to ask him something, Mirta arrives and kisses Arturo, much to Paulina’s surprise.  Mirta notices Paulina and tries to present them, but she excuses herself and rushes off.

     Carmelo receives the information he has been impatiently waiting for and sits down to read it.  He sees pictures of Joaquin Arcadio and becomes upset as he continues to read the documents.

     In the Lopez-Montfort home, Evaristo congratulates Nora for her part in Pilar’s fashion show.  Betina approaches them and also congratulates her and tells her she is full of surprises.  Evaristo asks Nora to join him in his office to discuss the progress of her earlier investments.  Meanwhile, Casilda approaches Leonardo who longingly looks at Nora from a far.  She tells him she needs to talk to him, but he tries to push her away.  Casilda insists.

     Paulina calls Rafael and her father to let them know things are going splendidly and that Renata and Roberto are also working with her on the same project.  Rafael moves away from his father’s side when he hears Renata’s name.  Silverio notices and asks Paulina about Renata.  She responds quickly and hangs up because the calling card is about to expire.  Silverio tells her to take care of herself and dedicate herself in body and soul to her job.  He also tells her to tell Renata that Rafael says hello.  Rafael is annoyed by his father’s words, but confesses to him that although he has tried to deny his feelings, he is in love with Renata.  He fathers wants to know what he is going to do about it, but Rafael asks him for advice.

     Kathy and Julian say goodbye.  Julian is sad to see her leave and tells her that he has gotten use to her presence again.  He admits he will miss her especially now that Renata has moved away.  She assures him she will always be there for him and leaves him a letter for him to open when she leaves.

     At a restaurant, Arturo tells Mirta that he has decided not to press charges against Juan Salvador and he will no longer pursue the investigation.  She reminds him that if he doesn’t continue, he will be giving up the opportunity to become a commercial pilot.  He stands firm by his decision.  She tells him she loves him even more now because of his noble act and kisses him.

     Carmelo asks the investigator if he is certain the information is correct. He then tells him to investigate Alejandra and Nora.

     Evaristo offers Nora a glass of red wine, but she refuses.  He insists she take it by telling her that even doctors recommend a glass a day.  She finally accepts.  Evaristo begins to compliment her again over the fashion show and she humbly thanks him.  He tells her that she should dress like that more often, but she tells him she does not like to attract attention.  He tells her she will always attract attention regardless of what she wears.  She looks away embarrassed and blushes.  He is captivated by her beauty and is pleasantly surprised that she blushed.  Evaristo tells her there aren’t any women like her left.  She asks him to change the subject and talk about her investments.  He tells her how he invested her money in the stock market and she now has a small amount of capital.  She is surprised and wonders how she can ever thank him.  Gisela walks in and tells Nora that they are all waiting for her to start the game.  Nora is unsure about playing with them for fear of losing her money.  Evaristo tells her that he will lend her money if she loses and if she wins she will make her capital grow.  Gisela is annoyed by them and asks her if she is going to play or not. She finally accepts.

     Paulina tries to tell Renata that she ran into that guy who kissed her in Morelia and that he is dating someone, but is interrupted by Roberto.

     Sergio and Diana run into Mirta and Arturo at a restaurant during lunch.  Diana is hurt to see him with another woman.

     Nora continues to win at the poker game.  One of the women decides to leave and Evaristo takes her place.  She continues to win and is embarrassed to accept the money, but they insist.  Evaristo offers to invest it for her and Gisela asks him what he is referring to.

     Casilda tells Leonardo about the way her Godmother treats her.  He listens to her while engaged in his favorite pastime, observing Nora.  Casilda continues to rant about how her Godmother tells her she will never marry.  She understands that she is not as beautiful as Nora is but she still deserves to be happy just like anyone else.  Annoyed, he agrees with her.  Casilda continues talking about how she despises her Godmother’s rules on how to get a man, although it seems to work because Nora is already engaged to be married.  Exasperated, he agrees with her and tells her that all rules have exceptions.  She asks him what he is referring to and he tells her that all of those rules can be overlooked for a woman with money.  Casilda smiles and asks him if he is serious.  He reconfirms what he has said that a woman with money can buy the man she wants.  He continues haphazardly to say that if she were rich he would marry her.  All the while he is looking for Nora.  Casilda just stares at him in amazement.

     Arturo explains to Mirta how he stole a kiss from Paulina in Morelia in an attempt to make Nora jealous.  He apologizes to her for telling her these things, because they may hurt her.  She reassures him that as long as he is always truthful with her she will never be afraid.

     Sergio repeatedly tells Diana that he is misunderstood and unloved by his wife.  He tells her that he is willing to give the woman who gives him love everything.  He is certain that his soul mate is out there, all the while Diana is upset about Arturo.

     Rafael continues to think about Renata.  Silverio tells him to listen to his heart because that is the only way he will find happiness.  He fears she will never accept him and should listen to his sister’s advice to forget about her.  Meanwhile, in Mexico City Paulina tells Renata how Rafael went after her when she left for the city.  She becomes emotional when she discovers that he does care about her.  Paulina continues to discourage her with Rafael.  They begin to talk about Arturo when Roberto again interrupts them.

     Mirta asks Arturo if he is still in love with Nora and he tells her he is.  She appreciates his sincerity and asks him to go with her.  She tells him she would like to visit Morelia with him.

     Isaura gives Alejandra a piece of cake as a peace offering.  She tells her that together they will be able to accomplish more.  Alejandra is annoyed by her comments and decides to try the cake.  Before trying it she gives her cat apiece and falls asleep before tasting it.  Awhile later she wakes up and is amused to see that the cat finished to whole slice.  She lovingly searches for her cat and suddenly yells out.

     Paulina tells Renata her concerns about finding a place to live when Roberto arrives. Renata tells her to live with her at the hotel with her, but she graciously declines the offer.  Roberto tells her that there is a room available at the pension where he is staying, which is nice and reasonable.  He offers to take her and they exit the building.  As the are leaving, they run into Arturo again and this time Renata happily surprised rushes to give him a hug.  Paulina is shocked to see her friend hugging this hateful man.

 

     Telenovela-World (Beatriz):    Friday – July 9th

     Alejandra is horrified when she finds her cat dead.  As she mourns the death of her beloved Sissi, she realizes that Isaura must have poisoned the cake and declares war on her.

     In her room, Nora thinks about her first kiss with Arturo in the middle of the street.  She admits she is not in love with Osvaldo, but knows she should marry him for his money.

     Isaura nervously awaits the results of her attempted murder.  She is sure that Alejandra is dead and decides to check on her.  Suddenly the lights go out and she searches for a candle.  Once she lights the candle and turns around she sees a black purse on the table.  She opens it and yells when she sees Sissi in the bag.  Alejandra walks into the kitchen and tells her the cake did not agree with Sissi.  Isaura is surprised and tells her she must have eaten something else that made her sick.  Alejandra tells her to contact the veterinarian.

     In Morelia, Mirta knocks on Arturo’s hotel room door.  Arturo is surprised to see her there and she tells him she desires him.  He is hesitant because he does not love her and would not like to hurt her feelings.  She assures him that he will not be the first man in her life.  She begins to kiss him and he finally concedes.  Afterwards, Mirta realizes she is in love with him and falls asleep happily.  Arturo on the other hand is quiet and serious because he realizes that he does not love her despite his attempt.  He just cannot forget Nora.

     Gisela invites Nora to her house for another game of poker.  Isaura gives her and Casilda permission to go.  Later at Gisela’s house, Evaristo takes Nora to the library to discuss her investment.  He gives her the good news that her investment has grown.  Nora tells him she does not know how she will ever be able to pay all he is doing for her.  He responds by telling her that she will find a way.  Gisela walks in and tells Nora they are waiting for her.

     At the pension, everyone is seated at the dinner table.  They are all chattering incessantly.  Clemente calls their attention to welcome Paulina to the house.

     Felipe throws away the pictures of Joaquin Arcadio.

     Alejandra decides to have a small reception to formally announce Nora and Osvaldo’s engagement.

     Heriberto thinks about Nora when Gertrudis walks in and he quickly sits up and pretends to be working.  She suspiciously asks him what he is doing.  He gets up and tries to hug her, but she pushes him away in disgust.  She reminds him that she is the one with the money and not him.  She threatens that if she finds out he is with someone she will leave him in the street penniless.

     Isaura and Casilda prepare the appetizers for the reception.

     Ana Maria finds the pictures that Felipe threw in the garbage can and wonders who he is.

     In a taxi, Paulina cannot forget the kiss Arturo gave her and begins to insult him out loud.

     Arturo is in the lobby of the Hotel Villareinal when he overhears Osvaldo telling his father to hurry up or they will be late for his engagement party with Nora.  Arturo is saddened when he hears this.

     Juan Salvador goes to see Clemente.  He is surprised by his visit and Juan Salvador confesses that he was responsible for his son’s fatal accident.  Clemente gets upset and begins to have a heart attack.

     The guests begin to arrive at the Madrigal house.  Isarua is in the kitchen putting some powder in a drink and tells Mariano to give the drink to Alejandra.  Just as she is about to drink from the glass she realizes the guests do not have drinks.  At this point, Osvaldo and Carmelo arrive, which makes her content.  Carmelo however immediately shows everyone a copy of the newspaper where Nora was accused of attempted murder against Heriberto Reyes in Pazcuaro.  Nora is embarrassed and shocked.  Carmelo continues by telling everyone that when he decided to investigate the family he found out that she was only interested in marrying his son for his money.  Osvaldo is outraged by his father’s accusation and refuses to believe him.  Almost in tears, he asks Nora if what his father is saying is true.  Nora straightens up and in a flat voice she tells him it is true.

 

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USA, 7/12-16/04

 

     www.telenovela-world.com:  Re: Hey Guys, I Missed It Yesterday [USA, 7/12/04] , Can Someone Tell Me What Happened? Author: Isabel Hanze (---)  Date:   07-13-04 12:09 PDT

     Yesterday, it opens when Osvaldo's father announces that his son will not marry Nora because she was involved in a scandal and was marrying Osvaldo for his money. Osvaldo throws a childish fit and confronts Nora about this. She admits the truth to him and his father asks for the ring back. Alexadra asks everyone to kindly leave. She proceeds to throw her drink and yell at Nora for being so truthful. She slaps her and tells her now no one is going to want to marry her after her truthful confession to Osvaldo. (I have to say even Isaura felt a little sorry for Nora.) Nora says she was just trying to be honest and that she's prepared to leave the house. But Tia says that she has invested too much time on her and she will live in the house as a servant.

     Later that evening, Tia calls her lawyer to say she wants to make changes to her will.

     They show Arturo outside the balcony thinking that he wants to talk to Nora and tell her that she shouldn't marry for money. And that he knows she still loves him. He gets a call telling him that his grandpa is in critical condition at the hospital.

     (The grandpa ends up in the hospital due to Juan Salvador's confession about causing the plane crash. Sorry that was also in the beginning of the novela.)

     To sum up the hospital scene, Arturo prays for his grandpa to get better, Mirta and Diego show up to comfort him. He tells Diego that Nora is going to marry for money(to show that he's still thinking about her while his grandpa is dying.)

Paulina shows up to ask about the grandpa and older lady(the one who calls Arturo everytime there's an emergency, sorry forgot her name) sends her home before she gets to meet the "nieto", Arturo.

     Isaura talks to Casilda and asks her if she would like to see her Tia die. If she did, then she would help her. Casilda agrees.

     Back at the house, Tia is thinking how to get rid of Isaura, so she places a piece of strong thread across the stairs to try and make her fall. So Tia starts calling Isaura to come down.

Meanwhile, Isaura is putting some poison into an apple.

However, at the same time, Leo shows up to talk to Nora and Casilda sees him through the window. So Casilda comes running down the stairs and ends up falling on top of Leo. Nora screams , Tia comes out of hiding...it was a great scene. They discover the string and wonder how it got there. Tia sends leo home. She tells Nora that she is not allowed to speak to Leo or any other visitors anymore since she is a servant now. She sends her back to work. Casilda goes to her room. and Isaura examines the string and knows that Tia was trying to kill her. She asks Tia what she was calling her for and why the string might have been there. Tia says she doesn't remember after all the comotion and she has no idea how the string got there.

     Casilda gets a call reminding her of a costume party she has to attend. Isaura tells her she's going as a witch and she has to do everything Isaura tells her.

So Isaura gets Casilda to put the poisoned apple in Tia room. While Tia is distracted by Casilda's costume, continuously making fun of Casilda because it's so perfect on her, Tia asks Casilda to get her an apple. She gets the bad one and hands it to her. Isaura takes a picture of this "handing of the apple" (possibly to use at blackmail later, who knows.)

A little later, when Tia is starting to feel ill, Isaura comes in and taunts her (Casilda is listening outside). Isaura tells her that isn't it ironic that her own daughter gave her the apple. At that point Casilda runs in and questions what she said. Isaura tells her the truth. Casilda asks Tia why she has lied to her. Tia says she ruined her life...and tells her now she's gotten her revenge by killing her own mother. She says she curses Casilda and dies. (It was a good scene, I felt sorry for Casilda who was crying the whole time. She actually looked sorry.)

     Meanwhile, the Abuelo ends up dying then coming back to life.

     On a side note, I forgot that Nora runs into Leo outside and tells him that she doesn't love him and to go live his life.

     She runs into Alfredo and punches him in the eye. (That was hysterical) He was so shocked and she was laughing as she walked off.

Later, Juan Carlos calls Alfredo telling him that the record company wants to see him and he has to look presentable..blah blah, meanwhile Alfredo has a nasty black eye from Nora...ha ha priceless.

     I hope this helps. I tried to get the most important scenes.

     FYI, if anyone has satellite TV, there is west coast Univision showing at 12am if you miss the 9pm showing. I have DISH Network and the channel is 828 for west coast.

     Isabel aka Bella

 

     www.telenovela-world.com:Re: Ok Claudia, it's long but good...summary of 7/13  Author: Isabel Hanze (---)  Date:   07-14-04 11:04 PDT

     It opens with Arturo at his Abuelo's bedside. He asks him who was the person with him when he had his heart attack. Abuelo tells him it was Juan Salvador asking him for forgiveness for causing the plane crash.

Casilda and Isaura are talking about the death of Tia with Isaura reminding Casilda that it was she who killed her by giving her the apple. So she better remember that they are both in this together. Casilda says that she wouldn’t have killed her if she had known it was her own mother. (You could tell she was feeling guilty and sorry for the whole thing.) Isaura reminds her of how Tia used to mistreat her and that now she will be rich to marry Leo. Nora walks in to this scene and asks what’s going on. Isaura quickly turns on her sad face and tells her that Tia is dead. She can’t believe it until she goes in and sees her for herself.

They show Pilar, Casilda, Isaura, Nora and Leo all in black crying in the living room. Isaura tells everyone that when they went to check on Tia they found her on the floor. She tells them that it must have been a heart attack. Tia had been complaining about a pain in her chest but didn’t want anyone to call the doctor. (Isaura was really convincing…even I almost believed her…ha ha.) Luckily, Pilar agrees with the story and confirms that Tia didn’t like doctors and she just liked to stay in her room until she felt better. (Lucky Isaura..) Isaura even went so far as to say that maybe the whole episode with Nora the night before may have caused her stress. (Poor Nora, trying to blame her for everything.) Even Casilda joins in and blames Nora. Leo of course comes to her defense saying that everyone is under a lot of stress and no one should be placing blame on anyone. Casilda of course agrees and asks Nora to forgive her. (Boy, Casilda really will do anything for Leo.) Casilda also mentions that Tia always wanted to be cremated. Leo says that he will take care of everything.

     Back at work, Paulina is in Juan Carlos office talking to him and he’s just staring at her dumbfounded. She asks him if he’s listening to her and he says that he just realized that she was not only intelligent but also very pretty. She says that no one has ever said she was pretty before. Then Jessica calls him and tells him that she’s back and they have a conversation pending. He sends her flowers as usual. Paulina hears this and asks if he sends flowers to all his dates. He laughs it off and says that they should get back to work. She agrees.

Later we see him thinking about her and he asks himself why he’s always thinking about her. (Could be love…)

     Back at the hospital, the nurse tells Arturo that his Abuelo is strong and will probably be better off at home. She will send him home soon. Juan Salvador sneaks into Abuelo’s room and tells him that he is sorry for causing his attack. Abuelo tells him about Arturo being a pilot like his dad and not being able to get a job with an airline because of his father’s reputation. So Juan tells Abuelo that he is going to clear Arturo Sr.’s good name by telling the truth. Abuelo says that he forgives him and hopes that Arturo will find the strength to forgive him too.

     Isaura reminds Casilda that soon she will have millions. Casilda asks her how long has she known about Tia being her mom. Isaura tells her since she went to Mexico City with Joaquin. She found some of Tia’s letters. Casilda asks to see them but Isaura lies and tells her she burnt them. Casilda then asks who her father was and Isaura again lies and tells her that the letters didn’t say. (I wonder why she’s lying…..)

     Juan Salvador writes a letter with the details of the accident and mails it. He ends up in the hospital where Arturo shows up and tells him that he forgives him. Juan Salvador tells Arturo that he hopes it’s not too late to fix what he did.

     Paulina goes to visit the Abuelo at the hospital and just misses Arturo. By coincidence, Renata ends up going to the pencion to pick something up for Mikaila(Juan Carlos’ secretary) and sees Arturo entering the pencion. She later tells Paulina, who gets upset about it. They wonder if maybe he was looking for a room. However, Paulina declares that she got the last room in the pencion. (I think Paulina protests too much….hint hint, but I’m surprised that Renata hasn’t defended Arturo since she’s supposed to be his friend.)

     Mirta and Diego are talking and she tells him that she’s in love with Arturo. Diego asks her how he feels. She tells him that Arturo has been honest with her about how he feels. She knows he loves Nora, but she’s living in the moment and she’s very happy. She also tells him that she’s not going back to NY, not because of Arturo but because of her mom. She doesn’t want to leave her alone now that she is getting help for herself.

Later she asks Diego to tell her about Nora. He tells her right away that she’s beautiful. She is not surprised but wants to know what she has that Arturo fell in love with her. He tells her that he thinks she made herself look defenseless(can’t think of another word) to trap Arturo and gain his sympathy. Mirta says it hurts her to think of Arturo loving someone else. Diego tells her that he thinks Nora is a bad person and doesn’t really love Arturo. Mirta thinks it’s sad to have a love that is not reciprocated. Diego tells her that it won’t matter because Nora will be married soon.

     Alfredo calls Juan Carlos to forgive him for not presenting himself to the record company, but he was ready to see them now. Juan Carlos informs him that they got someone else.

     Casilda is in her room talking to herself in the mirror feeling sad because she killed her mom yet glad because she never acknowledged her and now she would be rich to marry Leo. (This is a great scene where she goes back and forth between being guilty/sad and being happy. It was a great performance.) The lawyer arrives at Tia’s to read the will and Pilar and Leo leave to give them privacy. Isaura goes to look for Casilda for the reading of the will. They all sit at the table and the lawyer says that Tia must have sensed that she was going to die because she called him the night before to make some changes. Casilda and Isaura are in shock. The lawyer reads the will and Tia leaves Nora her mother’s sewing machine and the rest is Casilda’s. (I don’t get it..what was the big change the sewing machine??? Big disappointment.)

     Back at Diego’s house, he’s talking with his mom and sister when his dad arrives. He goes to hug him and the dad rejects him. (wow big surprise..not).

Later they show Arturo barging into Felipe’s office to reproach him for how he’s treating his kids. (I didn’t quite get this part…how did Arturo even know what happened with Diego??..) Anyway, Felipe basically tells him that he’s a bad influence on his kids and to mind his own business. Ana Maria comes in the middle of this conversation and listens to it outside the office door.

     Back at Tia’s, Casilda is happy because she is now a millionaire and can buy Leo. Nora talks to her mom’s picture and tells her that all she needs is her sewing machine and her mom’s blessing to move forward with her life. (Yeah, OK Nora, I think you’ll need a little more than that…)

     Isaura asks Nora if she is sad that Tia didn’t leave her anything. She says no that the sewing machine is enough for her. She hadn’t expected anything from her anyway. She tells Isaura that she feels her Tia’s death is a little strange. What with the dead cat, the string on the stairway and the fact that Tia had never been sick before. She finds it strange and that they should request an autopsy before they cremate her. She feels so strongly that she wants to inform the police to investigate. Isaura is stunned into silence. (A first for her..ha ha)

     Casilda calls Leo and tells him she needs to speak to him right away.

     Arturo is with Mirta and tells her that he spoke with her father. She tells him that he wasted his time. (No kidding)

Paulina, Renata and Juan Carlos congratulate Roberto for getting a contract with the record company. (Turns out he went instead of Alfredo..yeah)

While Paulina is ironing in her room at home, she begins thinking about Arturo’s kiss and smiling, she scolds herself for thinking about him. At this point, Mirta is dropping Arturo off at the pencion and he realizes he forgot his keys. So he rings the doorbell and Paulina opens the door only to yell at him and shut it in his face. (That was funny…and that’s how it ends.)

     I hope you enjoy my commentaries…I’ve become addicted to this novela and can’t stop watching.

Claudia since you are on the West Coast, you get it earlier rather than later. I live in NJ but will be off to Florida soon. Right now, I'm taping the novela every day, but I'm afraid I'm going to miss some episodes when I move in Aug.

If you miss some episodes you can also click on the Univision foro, but you have to read in Spanish. I use it to jog my memory. They don’t have as much detail but they try to capture every scene.

     Enjoy!!

     Isabel

     PS Hello to everyone, I enjoy reading everyone’s comments even if I don’t chime in.

 

AEMP – July 14th   [USA, 7/14/04]

Translation by B. 

from Univision forum’s johanna119: RESUMEN: Miercoles 14 de Julio

     Outside the pension, Arturo realizes he does not have his keys and rings the doorbell.  In her room, Paulina thinks about Arturo when she hears someone persistently ring the doorbell.  Since no one seems to be answering the door, she rushes downstairs to open the gate.  When she realizes that it is Arturo she starts yelling at him to find another place to rent a room because that pension is full.  Arturo tries to tell her that he lives there, but her shouting drowns him out and she manages to close the door in his face.  Behind the closed door, Paulina cannot believe her bad luck, while Arturo bangs on the door. 

     Isaura tells Casilda that Nora wants to investigate her aunt’s death.  They decide on a plan to discourage Nora from following through with her investigation. 

     Paulina and Arturo are in the living room arguing when Diana and Micaela walk in.  Arturo tells them that Paulina did not want to let him in and they start to laugh.  Paulina insists that he should leave because there are no more rooms available.  Micaela tells her that he lives there and is Clemente’s grandson.  Paulina is taken aback and tells them she cannot leave because she has paid the month in advance.  Diana and Micaela make fun of her attitude and she walks away annoyed. 

     Leonardo arrives at the Madrigal house and asks Casilda why she called him.  She asks him if he recognizes the broach she is wearing.  He says it is her aunts and she corrects him by telling him that it is now hers because she is Alejandra’s sole heir.  Now that she has all of the money she would like to buy him and asks him for a kiss.

     In his room, Arturo thinks about Paulina and the kiss he gave her.

     Leonardo tells Casilda he was not expecting this and that they should discuss this at a later time.  She tells him that she has been in love with him for a long time.  He leaves and she cries when she realizes that he will not even accept her with her money.  She remembers when her Godmother would tell her to look at herself in the mirror and accept that she is too ugly to ever marry. 

     Gertrudis tells Alfredo and Heriberto about Alejandra’s death and that it was probably Nora’s fault for the scandal she caused.  She tells them that Alejandra did not leave her anything and left her in the street, because she left everything to Casilda.

     Isaura and Nora return to the house from church to find Casilda crying desperately.  She tells Isaura that Leonardo refused to marry her even though she is now rich. 

     Alone, Leonardo thinks about Casilda’s proposal and laughs as he contemplates what to do. 

     Isaura tells Nora that she should forget the idea of investigating Alejandra’s death because she probably had a heart condition.  She supports this by telling her that Casilda had accompanied her aunt to the cardiologist in the past.  The doctor had also told her to avoid any upsetting situations, which could cause her to have a heart attack.  She hints at the possibility of the ‘heart attack’ being caused by Nora’s recent scandal.  Shortly afterwards, Pilar arrives at the house and offers Nora a permanent position as a model.  She declines the modeling job, but would like a job as a seamstress.  Isaura and Casilda convince her to accept the job.

     Paulina tells Renata that Arturo is Clemente’s grandson and that they are now living in the same house.  Diego arrives and Renata tells him the story, he tells them that life can be funny that way. 

     Pilar shows Nora the clothes for the modeling show.

     Diego asks Renata if she would consider dating him, but she turns him down. She only sees him as a good friend.

     Heriberto calls the Madrigal house and Casilda answers the phone.  He nervously asks for Isaura or Nora and refuses to identify himself or leave a message. 

     Ana Maria meets Arturo for lunch to discuss his intentions with Mirta.   She asks him to please be sincere with her because they are going through some difficult family issues. 

     Leonardo visits Casilda and tells her that after some careful consideration, he will accept her proposal.  She becomes ecstatic and wants to set the date right away.  He tells her not to rush things because her aunt just died, while Isaura listens from the next room.  He continues by telling her that he would like her to sign a prenuptial agreement and she quickly agrees.  Isaura does not like the sound of that idea.

     The modeling show begins and everyone applauds Nora.  She is feeling good until she sees Herbierto and rushes off the runway.  Later she explains to Pilar her reasons for leaving.

     Leonardo tells Gisela and Evaristo that he will marry Casilda because she is Alejandra’s sole heir. 

     Arturo goes to the hospital to visit his grandfather and tells him about the conversation he just had with Ana Maria.  Clemente tells him to think this through before making a decision.

     Nora cries as she remembers the day she met Arturo and all of the times she has seen him.  She is sad because if he would have loved her things would be different and her recent suffering would not have taken place. 

     At Leonardo’s apartment, Gisela argues with him about his decision to marry Casilda.  He tells her that he will not change his mind.

     Ana Maria cries and is content she spoke to Arturo about Mirta’s happiness. 

     Evaristo arrives at the Madrigal house and gives his condolences to Nora and offers her support.  She asks for her money back, but he tells her it will not be possible because it has been invested long-term.  He does offer to loan her money, but before she is able to answer, Isaura enters and sends her for napkins.  In the meantime, Isaura talks to him and he offers her a check but not to tell Nora. 

     Arturo arrives at his house with Mirta and tells her he has something important to tell her.  She playfully jokes about his serious demeanor, but he turns and tells her that he is not in love with her.  

 

 

Summary in English, July 16  Amarte es mi pecado

Translated by Marietta,  Redactado en espanol por Girlsincerity

from Univision forum’s girlsincerity: Resumen viernes 16/7/04 de Amarte es mi pecado

     Arturo encounters Nora at the fountain.  He asks her if it is true that she is marrying only for interest.  She says yes, that her love is driven only by money.  Arturo says that he’d hoped to hear something different.  She asks that he not bother her again.  They separate as she weeps.

     Nora arrives and tells Isaura what has happened.  She regrets what she said to Arturo.  Isaura tells her that Arturo will betray her.  She should be seeking revenge.  Nora says that she wants nothing more to do with men.  Isaura suggests that she needs a protector.  Nora says no, she won’t sell herself.  She does not want a lover.

     Arturo and Diego discuss Arturo’s feelings about Mirta and how she has told him the truth.

     Nora alters Casilda’s outfit.  Isaura arrives and shows her the photo she took of Casilda delivering the poison apple to Alejandra (dressed as Sleeping Beauty).

     Pilar, Betina and Gisela talk.  Pilar tells the others how Alejandra was compelling Nora to marry a rich man.

     Nora thinks about Arturo and regrets having lied to him.

     Silvero and Rafael talk.  Rafa tells his father that Renata is not for him.

     Julian, Renata’s father, tells her that he spoke with Cathy, his ex-wife, who said that Renata was in love.  “Is it Diego?” he asks.  Rafael arrives and greets them.

     Silverio does to say goodbye to the rooming house group.  He is especially warm to Codavonga.

     Casilda doesn’t like the alterations that Nora has made in her clothes.  Casilda yells at Nora to go to Pilar’s and find some clothes that she will like.

     Rafa says goodbye to Paulina.  He tells her that he is returning to Morelia.  Julian invites him to join Julian, Paulina and Renata for a meal.  At the table, Renata and Rafa look at each other and smile discretely.  Renata tells her father that she isn’t in love with Diego but could become interested in him.

     Casilda looks at the photo of her delivering the poisonous apple to Alejandra.  She sees that Isaura is watching her.  Casilda asks:  “Why did you bring this to me?”

Isaura:  “So you won’t forget that you, Casilda, killed Alejandra.” 

     Casilda responds that now she has money and she gives the orders.  Isaura responds that money and orders are two different things!  Casilda says that they are the same and that she now occupies the place of her m….   Isaura finishes the sentence, MOTHER.  She adds that Casilda shouldn’t mess with her or she will tell everyone that Alejandra was her mother.

     Casilda asks:  “Who will you tell?  Leonardo?  Gisela?  Betina?  Your friends in Morelia’s high society?  Who’s going to believe you?”   She continues in the high-handed way of Alejandra (which she has adopted exactly) that Isaura is a poor nothing.

“Put the photo back where it came from.  And you dirtied the glass.  Clean it!”

     Isaura tells her not to fight with an ally.  With big fake tears she tells Casilda that she loves her above all others, like a daughter.  Casilda says she is going to sleep in her godmother’s room.  When she leaves Isaura smiles and says to herself that Casilda is an idiot.

     Nora escapes to the post office where Arturo is.  She tells Arturo that she lied and that she is not going to marry.  Arturo says that he knew that.  They agree to have coffee and to talk further.  Later Nora tells Arturo that her aunt obliged her to fulfill her wishes and thanks Arturo for listening.  She hopes he will be happy with his girlfriend.  He tells her that he doesn’t have a girlfriend.

     Pilar invites Nora to model in her fashion show.

     Sergio proposes a party to launch the new magazine.  Paulina starts to talk but then stops.  Later in the office Juan Carlos asks Paulina what she wanted to say.  She says that she thinks a more informal, fresher launch would be preferable.  He agrees and calls for Sergio.

     Sergio later asks Paulina if she is contradicting his authority.  He yells.  She says that she wants only to see the magazine progress.

     Nora is ready to walk down the stairway as part of the fashion show.  Casilda and Isaura are there to watch.

     Arturo thinks about Nora.

     Betina and Gisela approach Casilda and praise her.  She thanks them and says that she doesn’t believe they mean it.

     Gertrudis arrives with Alfredo.  The models begin coming down the stairway. As Nora descends, Gertrudis yells that Nora wanted to seduce her husband and Alfredo.  She slaps Nora, who runs away.

     Nora cries.  She knocks on Arturo’s hotel room door.  She tells him that she can’t take it any more.  She can’t understand why people abuse her.  She wants to die.  Why can’t she live in peace?  She and Arturo kiss passionately.  One thing leads to another and they make love.

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USA, 7/19 - 23/04

 

     Telenovela-World:  English summary  Amarte es mi pecado  July 19, 2004   

     Translated by Marietta from Univision’s forista diosaelectrica:  RESUMEN LUNES 7/19/04 REDACTADO POR KARIFUL1*

     Arturo and Nora are in his hotel room.  They’ve made love.  Nora says that she feels very happy.  She has been sexually intimate for the first time, not by obligation but with the man she will love forever.  Arturo asks her if she will regret it later.  She says, “No, never.”  Later he says that like her he trembles when he is close to her.  “When I embrace you, I feel that you are part of me, “says Arturo.  He swears to Nora that he will not leave her and no one will ever harm her again.

     At the fashion show, Betina, Gisela and Gertrudis talk.  Gertrudis accepts an invitation to eat at the home of Gisela and Evaristo.  Betina asks Gertrudis about Alfredo.  She says that he was the first of Nora’s victims and for this he suffered greatly.  Gisela asks about her relationship with Alfredo and Gertrudis says that she loves him very much and that he is like her son.  She continues, telling them that although Heriberto would deny it, Nora nearly killed him because he didn’t want to give her money.  Nora has come to Morelia because she was driven out of town.

     In Arturo’s room, he admits that he suffered very much when Nora didn’t want to see him and he didn’t understand why she wouldn’t explain.  Nora tells him that she is in part responsible because of her promise to her father and the fact that she didn’t want to share her plans with her aunt.  She feels that Arturo was also partly responsible because he didn’t say anything about his girlfriend in Mexico at the start.  Arturo is disconcerted and says that the relationship with Mirta ended and that he was seeing no one when he met Nora.  Finally she says that it was Diego who told her that Arturo had a girlfriend in Mexico who he was going to marry.  It was the day when she came to the hotel looking for Arturo.  Arturo becomes angry and says that this was a lie.  Diego knew that he never was in love with Mirta.

     After the fashion show, Casilda asks Isaura if Nora really had anything to do with Heriberto. Isaura answers:  “No, because she refused to accept him.”  So, says Casilda, this is why he persists, why he came here and why we were masked.  Isaura laughs and says, “Don’t complain.  You wanted it.”  Isaura continues that it was worth it for the experience. Casilda laughs and agrees.

     Back at the hotel Arturo asks Nora why Diego saw her kissing Leonardo.  She answers that it was to avenge Arturo’s actions.  Arturo answers that Diego knew very well that he didn’t have a girlfriend when they met, that Mirta came afterwards, and that the relationship with Mirta has ended.  He says that he will demand an explanation from Diego immediately.  Nora makes excuses for Diego, saying that he was trying to protect Arturo from Nora given the many bad rumors about her.  Arturo and Nora agree that no one will separate them again.

     At the rooming house, Diana and Paulina talk.  Diana says that now that the relationship with Mirta has ended, she will look for Arturo.  Paulina reminds Diana that Arturo doesn’t love her and that anyway, she wouldn’t seek him out if he were the last man on earth.

     Arturo accompanies Nora to her house and kisses her goodnight.  She enters the house smiling.  Casilda and Isaura are bothered by her smile.  They ask her how she feels after what happened at the fashion show.  She says she feels fine and goes upstairs to bed.

     In her bedroom Nora thinks, “I love you, I love you ….”  She looks at the photo of her father and says:  “I won’t complete my promise because I’m going to marry Arturo.  Good night.”  She turns around the photo and goes to bed.  Isaura enters the room and asks what happened.  Nora says that it doesn’t matter, that life is short and she’s going to enjoy it.

     At the hotel Diego admits to Arturo that what he did was bad, but he saw Leonardo and Nora kissing.  Arturo interrupts and yells that her action with Leonardo was because of the lie Diego told.  Arturo grabs Diego and shakes him.  Diego moves away and warns Arturo not to touch him again.  Then Diego yells not to believe in Nora, that kissing Leonardo out of jealousy was infantile.  For that alone, Diego claims that he  was justified in lying.  Arturo yells at Diego, “Shut up!  Shut up!”  Diego responds that his intentions were the best as his friend.  Arturo replies, “No, Diego.  You are not my friend.  A friend doesn’t lie.”  With that Arturo turns and leaves.

     At the magazine office, Juan Carlos announces at the staff meeting that he has chosen a new name for the new magazine.  It’s the name that Paulina suggested.  Sergio is visibly annoyed.  Later Juan Carlos invites Paulina to have lunch and she accepts.

     Nora receives a bouquet of flowers with a note, “From Arturo.”

     Juan Carlos and Paulina have lunch.  A bouquet of flowers arrives from Juan Carlos.

     At Leonardo’s apartment, Gisela and Leonardo argue about Casilda.  Casilda and Isaura arrive and knock at the door.  Gisela hides behind the bedroom door and listens.

     Michaela tells Paulina that Juan Carlos sends flowers only to the women that interest him.

     Arturo, wearing his uniform, knocks at Nora’s door.  She opens the door and they kiss.

     Leonardo asks Isaura that she leave his apartment.  Casilda stays and they argue about the marriage contract.  Leonardo says that no one should meddle in his business and that he has finished with the contract.  He tells Casilda to read the contract.  There are two important conditions.  She reads the contract.

     At the rooming house, Diana and Michaela tease Paulina about the bouquet.  She arranges the bouquet in the living room.  Juan Carlos knocks at the door and comes in.  The women run up the stairway and look at Paulina and Juan Carlos.

     Casilda has read the two conditions:  1) there will be only a civil wedding; 2) there will be no sexual intimacy.  Casilda asks for an explanation.  She wants to be his.  Gisela, behind the door, laughs.  Leonardo tells Casilda:   “Accept, or we won’t marry.”

     At Nora’s, Arturo tells her how he challenged Diego’s explanation for the lie.  Diego said that he was trying to protect Arturo.  Nora is not surprised, saying that her infamy has followed her.  He says that it doesn’t matter, that he seeks the truth in her eyes.  They kiss and Arturo tells her that there is something important he has to say.  He’s very nervous and pulls at the collar of his shirt.  Then he falls to his knees and proposes to Nora: “Will you marry me?”  She is speechless at first.  He looks worried.  But she accepts and they kiss.  Arturo swears that they will be happy and that he will protect her forever.

     Casilda wants to know what she gains if there is no intimacy.  Leonardo suggests that no one will say that she is an old maid.  She says that she wants children.  He responds that with science, intimacy is not necessary for children.   She leaves and Gisela laughs very hard.

     At the rooming house, Paulina and Juan Carlos chat while having coffee.  He seems uncomfortable.  Paulina is not bothered by this.  He leaves.

     At his apartment, Gisela says that she likes the contract.  She and Leonardo go to bed.

     At a restaurant, Casilda and Isaura wonder whether Heriberto told Leonardo what happened between Casilda and Heriberto.  Perhaps for this reason Leonardo wants no intimacy with Casilda.  Isaura offers to talk with Heriberto and Casilda accepts the offer.

     Nora is at the cemetery, talking with her late father about Arturo again.

     At the rooming house, Paulina answers the phone and it’s Arturo.  She looks for Don Clemente, but he is resting.

     At her house, Mirta and her mother argue about the conversation that  Ana Maria had with  Arturo.  Ana Maria says that she was acting as a mother, trying to insure her daughter’s happiness. 

     Paulina  returns to Arturo on the phone and says that everyone in the office knows that his relationship with Mirta has ended.  He responds: “I suppose that you think that she is better off without me.”  She answers, “You said it, not me.”  They hang up.

     At Heriberto’s office, Isaura warns him that Casilda wants money to keep her from saying anything to Gertrudis about their encounters.  He gives Isaura some money.

     Nora goes to Pilar’s office and tells her about the wedding.  Pilar offers to make a wedding dress for her.

     Casilda and Isaura are at home.  Isaura warns Casilda that Heriberto wants money to stay quiet.  Casilda goes to look for money for Isaura to give to Heriberto.  Later, at dinner, Casilda feels poorly.  Isaura wonders if this is caused by Leonardo.  She responds that perhaps she won’t marry Leonardo and leaves.  Isaura tells Nora that Leonardo is too ambitious.

     Gisela and Evaristo have a dinner party.  Leonardo arrives.  He and Heriberto greet each other as those it were the first time they’d met.  Gertrudis gets drunk and runs on about all that happened in Pátzcuaro.  Everyone is embarrassed.  Leonardo gets angry and leaves.  Giesela follows him into the street where Leonardo admits that he is in love with Nora and can’t abide Gisela’s guests.

     At his office, Don Felipe hands some documents to Julian and asks if they can be partners in the big hotel, because if not, Don Felipe cannot sustain the business.  It’s in bankruptcy.

     Arturo comes to Nora’s bedroom by the balcony.  The kiss and make love again by the light of candles.  He tells Nora that being with her is marvelous.  They continue to make love.

     Meanwhile Heriberto and Evariso discuss “the truth” about Nora.  Heriberto warns him that Isaura and Nora want to get money out of both him and Evaristo.  Evaristo admits that Nora is an obsession now.  Heriberto warns him: “Be careful.”

     Mirta comes to Arturo’s hotel room.  She kisses him.

     Nora is at home in her bedroom dreaming of her father.  He yells that she has let him down.  She wakes up frightened.

     The door bell sounds at Leonardo’s apartment.  It is Casilda dressed in an overcoat.  It’s late and Leonardo is disturbed.  She declares that she accepts the contract.  But she takes off the coat and is naked.  She says:  “Make me your own.”

 

Telenovela-World: English Summary: (translated from summary by marycitaa in Univision forum)/ Jardinera654 - Tues., July 20

     Casilda takes off her coat and stands totally naked in front of Leonardo telling him to take her and make her his right then and there.  He sits her down and restates that the only way he’ll marry her is if she accepts his conditions.  She tells him that he should bring her the contracts and she’ll sign them. -- Mirta arrives to speak with Arturo.  He tells her that he thinks she’s an attractive woman but that he’ll never come to love her because he’s since gone back with Nora and he is thinking of marrying her now. -- Nora looks at the photo of her dead father and asks his pardon for not complying with his last wishes and her oath.  –Leonardo accompanies Casilda back home and assures her he’ll now take care of the plans for the wedding.  –Isaura keeps the money she took from Casilda and from Heriberto.  Casilda tells Isaura that she signed the prenuptial contract.  Isaura becomes hysterical at that and asks her if she was crazy. Signing that means that she can never have relations with Leonardo and yet she has told Isaura how much she hopes that Leonardo will come to love her and to make love to her after they are married.  Additionally he can take her fortune and decide to leave her with nothing if he chooses.  –In her madrina’s room, Casilda begins to try on her Alejandra’s old wigs and to speak to herself as if she is Alejandra. –Don Heriberto gets upset with Gertrudis and says she made a fool of herself at dinner earlier at Gisela and Evaristo Montfort’s party. He says Evaristo is after Nora. She says not to be silly and laughs that they were all listening eagerly to her. Then she adds poor Gisela; soon Nora will make her crying tears of blood for all the trouble she will cause them.

 

     www.telenovela-world.com: USA, 7/21/04 - Cyndire - Your Summary for 1st half Wed. espisode  Author: Jardinera654 (---)  Date:   07-23-04 19:39 PDT

     In Pilar's office she and Nora are discussing the fact that Nora is spending all this money for her wedding dress and accessories without telling Arturo. Nora says no problem cause it's a surprise. Then Pilar questions the sense in Nora being so tied to one man but she answers that she knows he loves her just as much as she loves him. So she's not worried. -- At Paulina's house her dad set the kitchen on fire with another experiment and Arturo arrives just in time to save them due to the fact he's delivering an important package for Rafa from the U.S. (Cathy).--Back at Pilar's Nora is looking at her self in the mirror in her wedding dress when Leo shows up and he asks her will she be modeling that wedding dress. Nora looks up and says happyily, no. She's getting married to Arturo. Leo is shaken and upset. He says he figures then everything was due to all sorts of misunderstandings apparently. Nora explains that she only kissed him in the doorway that day because she saw Diego and wanted him to see them so he'd tell Arturo and make Arturo jealous. She says she tried to explain why she did what she did but Leonardo kept talking and wouldn't let her say a word! He insists he still loves her but she says she's sorry. Leo is upset and says well he still has Casilda's money to console him. Nora says don't talk like that because it makes her feel bad and to remember money isn't everything. He snickers back: You remember once I told you I'd give up all these plans to marry an heiress if I could marry you and I'd take you far away from all this because I loved you so much, but you rejected me. At that point Pilar comes in and Leo tells Nora he's really happy for her and then leaves. Outside he stops and is crying tears of frustration and pain.

Back in M.C. at the boarding house Abuelo and Paulina are talking about Juan Carlos who just left there. He says he's really impressed with her new boss and he's probably not only successful but has lots of women interested in him. She says despite all that he's really a lonely man down deep. --Back in Morelia at her house Rafa returns as Arturo and the other two come out of the kitchen. They hide the accident from him and wait for him to open the package which apparently has the documents needed to expedite exports of the artist works to the U.S. --At the boarding house in Diana's room she asks Paulina how she feels about Juan C. and Paulina says he's great but would never look at someone like here to date seriously. Then she sees Diana's photo of her and Art at the club the night of the accident. They discuss the accident and how polite and attentive he was to Diana all through her recovery. She thinks Paulina's stupid to keep hating him. So Paulina tells her about the time he kissed her in the restaurant just to make this girl, Nora, that she sort of knew, jealous. Paulina calls him a "patán. --Back at Nora's she and Arturo are kissing on the balcony and he says it's going to be the last time he comes in that way because as soon as Casilda's married he's coming back to formalize their engagement with Casilda and Isaura. They go inside her bedroom and Nora stops and looks at her dad's photo and says it's almost as if he's demanding from the picture that she comply with her oath to him. She explains that she feels guilty for causing his death the same day he found out she was going to marry Alfredo instead. Arturo tells her that was a ridiculous pledge to make and that she's not to blame for his death or anythin. So Nora clings to him and cries tears of relief....-- Meanwhile Leo's having really bad second thoughts about going through with this wedding with Casilda. He finally tells himself he's gonna be a rich man so deal with it and move on. --Back in Abuelo's bedroom he and Arturo are discussing his plans to marry Nora and Abuelo gets really upset. He says she shot a man for money and you said she deceived you with all those men you saw her kissing and OMG, how could you? Arturo answers it was all due to a big misunderstanding stemming from that lie Diego told her to separate the two of them. All of it was to make him jealous. If he met her he'd realize what a great person she really was. --Back at Nora's she's on her way to Pilar's and to go shopping for the wedding when Isaura stops her and ask why's shes so unusually happy and excited. Nora tells her "all in good time" and leaves. --Back in Abuelo's room he confesses his part in asking Diego to help him get rid of Nora. He asks to be forgiven and unusually calm, Arturo does! y punto! Abuelo says great and he's now all for the wedding if Nora is all that he says she is. --Casilda's looking for jewelry for her wedding dress and starts talking to herself like she was both Madrina and herself. Juan Carlos leaves a folder for Paulina and asks to use the phone in the living room cause his cell is dead. While he's waiting he invites Arturo to the launch party for the new magazine, but Arturo says he probably can't because of a flight the next day. --Then Isaura overhears Casilda talking to herself but Casilda denies it. --Back at the Pension Diana flirts with Arturo and asks if he and Mirta really are finished and he smiles back yes, but he got back with the girl in Morelia, Nora, and is getting married to her now. So Diana goes back to her room and angrily tears up the photo of the two of them and swears she's going to go off with the first man who looks at her.

 

2nd Half of Thurs. July 22nd(original by keriful1 in Univision forum )- translation by Jardinera654

     Gertrudiz and Alfredo come back to their suite after shopping.  They plan to attend the launch party at the magazine’s offices, and to do it without invitations. –Juan Carlos is on the phone ordering something to arrive as a surprise.  –At the boarding house, Arturo hands over Paulina’s file from Juan Carlos and mentions that he’s been invited to their launch party but can’t come due to a preplanned flight. –Nora receives a call from Arturo later to tell her that in the morning,  he’s coming to formalize their engagement with her stepmother and that he’s also bringing his grandfather to help smooth things over.  He tells her not to stop thinking about him and she tells him the same.  Nora thinks about how she’s spent all her winning now for her wedding and that it was totally worth it.

     In the courtyard at the magazine offices the guests are arriving and chatting with each other.  Alfredo and Gertrudis are there.  Jessica tries to get Juan Carlos to share the weekend with her up in N.Y. but he tells her he’s busy and cannot promise her anything.  She leaves thinking he’ll try to show up and he’s thinking about Paulina.  Then Arturo arrives and seeks out Mirta.

     Leonardo arrives at Casilda’s and tells Nora that he simply cannot go on with the wedding.  He loves her and not Casilda. –At the launch party, Juan Carlos names Paulina as the editor.  Sergio chokes on his drink and spills it he’s so angry and envious at Paulina’s being chosen.  Paulina is surprised as well as everyone else. –Nora tries to tell Leonardo that he must marry Casilda because he has no hope of anything between the two of them.  She’s in love with Arturo.  Just then Casilda comes running in and Leonardo abruptly leaves.  Casilda is angry and jealous of Nora.  She stomps out of the room.  –Paulina chats with her family that Juan Carlos had sent plane tickets to in order to surprise Paulina.  Before leaving, Rafa and Renata run into each other and again he is tongue tied and cannot tell her what he really is feeling for her.  –Arturo tells Mirta that she ought to probably hear it from him first that he’s definitely getting married to Nora.  She tells him congratulations and that even though it still hurts her she is happy for him.

     While Nora serves dinner to Casilda, for spite Casilda tells her that she suspects it really hurts her that she’ll never get married now since nobody would marry spoiled good like her.  Nora stays quiet and smiles, thinking, “If you only knew.”  --At the party Sergio is grumbling to Diana about Paulina’s being chosen editor when she’s so totally inexperienced compared to him.  Arturo finds Diego there and tells him that his grandfather admitted his part in their trying to separate him from Nora.  He thanks Diego for trying not to involve his grandfather.  However,  Diego turns his back on his friend and leaves.  Then Arturo and Paulina run into each other and he gives her congratulations from the boarders as well as himself.  Juan Carlos appears just then and the three chat about her big surprise.  Afterward, Arturo leaves. –Sergio and Diana go to a bar and then to his apartment.  They are both tipsy and he begins to rape her.  –Juan Carlos and Paulina leave and spend the rest of the day at the park.

     At Don Clemente’s Arturo and he discuss the launch party and Paulina’s success.  Clemente worries that she’s not home yet and he says she was with her boss.  He mentions how well she and her boss get along. –Back at Mirta and Diego’s they are talking over their feelings at Arturo’s breaking up with her and now marrying Nora.  Mirta tells him that it wasn’t his fault.  She had misunderstood him and Arturo was always respectful of her and her feelings.  She asks her brother not to be bitter.  Then Renata enters and Mirta leaves. Diego asks her what she feels for him and she warns him that she still doesn’t feel anything but friendship towards him.  He tells her he’ll wait and she can take as much time as she needs.

     In Pilar’s shop, Casilda is preparing for her wedding night.  Pilar comes in and helps her fix her hair and make up.  When Pilar is done Casilda has been transformed.  Her hair is short and styled, she has her face made up nicely, and she’s wearing a very elegant, tasteful and flattering wedding dress. Pilar assures Casilda that Alejandra had only treated her strictly to make sure she became a strongly confident woman.  She should not worry about Leonardo.

     At the wedding later, Isaura announces loudly that the bride is coming.  Nora, is running a little late,  and while Casilda is standing on the staircase her high heels clack upstairs as she starts to come down the staircase behind Casilda, smiling broadly.  The guests all forget Casilda for the moment, Casilda’s great moment,  and all eyes look up at Nora.  Nora is breathtakingly elegant, imposing, and captivating in her raspberry silk gown (the same gown that matched Paulina’s).

     Casilda wakes herself up, grabs Leonardo and drags him toward the judge.  –In the doorway of the boarding house, Juan Carlos and Paulina say good night and kiss for the first time.  –At their wedding the judge asks Casilda if she accepts Leonardo and she quickly answers yes, but when the judge asks Leonardo if he accepts Casilda to be his wife he remains quiet.  He cannot find the words to answer.  He looks at Casilda and then at Nora.  She shakes her head affirmatively to him but he still doesn’t respond.  All the guests are watching Nora but neither Leonardo or Casilda.  Leonardo cannot answer the judge!   ==END==

 

 

     www.telenovela-world.com:  7/23/04 Friday's Summary: Just Since I had it anyway, this time.....  Author: Jardinera654 (---) Date:   07-25-04 14:18 PDT

     Friday, July 23rd:

     Leo finally finds his voice and says yes to the judge at the wedding, then Betina gets the guests shouting BESO! Beso! Leo rudely gives Casilda only a cursory peck on the forehead. A bit later he's out on the balcony for air and Gisela finds him and they start kissing! Betina finds them and Leo runs off embarrased and Gisela says to her shocked friend, "Keep this quiet; the wedding's all a rotten sham anyway and everyone knows it." Betina wants a bribe though to insure that she won't tell Evaristo. Later in the newlyweds' bedroom Leo sleeps on the couch. When she complains disappointedly. he angrily reminds her that's what she signed and agreed to. --Next morning Casilda gets mad at Leo when he pointedly sits down next to Nora at breakfast. So she meanly forces Nora to get up from the breakfast table that they were all sharing, in order to serve Leo his breakfast like a servantgirl. Later she demands Isaura and Nora leave the house permanently, and then agrees to just a few days when Isaura balks at having no place for the two of them to go; but she says they must start looking and she'll even pay for it as long as she can get Nora the heck out of there and away from Leo. Isaura ends up at Heriberto's hotel and blackmails him into a free room with an "Open Bar" for as long as Casilda wants. Otherwise she'll make sure Gertrudis will hear all about his adventures with Casilda.

     Nora tells Isaura she has a plan so they won't have to worry about being thrown out onto the street like beggars; she takes a surprise trip up to Mexico City and drops in at the Pension. She introduces herself to Abuelo as Arturo's fiance, and tells him her long history to avoid him thinking badly about her any longer. Abuelo believes and accepts her willingly, especially when Arturo walks in from work and is so obviously delighted to find her there. She tells them she's staying in a small hotel nearby and not to worry about a room. Arturo introduces her to Covadonga and the 4 of them end up sightseeing. While sightseeing he gives her a beautiful bracelet and aparrently a ring appears on her finger.

     J.Carlos gives Paulina her mom's diamond necklace back, and expresses his deep love for her. However, later, because she overhears Sergio whining to Diana behind the partition about how she didn't deserve to be editor, she resigns her position with the organization. She tells J.Carlos it's because it looks like he's promoted her for all the wrong reasons. He angrily swears she deserved it in spite of his feelings for her. Renata talks her into staying as a reporterette at least. Sergio gets the editorship then. So now instead of Renata going to Miami, Paulina will go to Miami next week for this important launch(?) meeting. Then she makes a call home to her daddy but he's not there. He's gone birthday shopping for her with Rafa. The orphan boy tells Paulina how Arturo saved him and her dad from another really bad fire. She's surprised and touched.

     At dinner that night Leo angrily accuses Casilda of purposely sending the others away from the house in order to force him to give in to her desires for a sexual encounter. She denies it but he doesn't believe and storms off from the dinner table.

     Arturo and Nora return home from siteseeing and find a note that Covadonga and Abuelo went to a late movie. Nora and he decide to go up to his room for some quality love-making. Upstairs in the darkened room they're kissing and getting passionate and just then there's a knock at the door. Arturo pushes Nora behind the door and opens it, shocked and says, "Paulina!" Immediate the look on Nora's face changes from an impatient lover's smile to an anxiously desperate, bitterly jealous frown as she REMEMBERS Paulina as the girl he kissed in the restaurant right after she told the millonaire ranchero, Osvaldo, that she'd marry him.

     --The End--

 

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SUMMARIES FROM TELENOVELA-WORLD

     www.telenovela-world.com: Summary Mon. 07/26/04  Author: BettyBoop (---)  Date:   07-27-04 08:02 PDT

     Arturo and Nora go back to his place and are passionately kissing when someone knocks at door it's Paulina who tell Arturo thanks for saving her grandpa and brother in the fire and she also tell him that she was wrong about him and wants to be friends with him since they do live in the same house Nora is behind the door crying because she remembers Arturo kissing Paulina but afterword Paulina leaves he assures her that is was only to make her jealous. They sit and share photos.

     Casilda has prepared dinner for her and Leonardo but when he come home he says he a already eaten and will from now on be sleeping in the guest room. The next day he asks Casilda for money to start his own business.

     Paulina is at work and Juan Carlos call her into his office and tell her that he loves her and asks her to marry him she say that she can't because she doesn't love him but he pleads with her to think about it while she is Californa. She go back to work and is tells Reynata the Juan Carlos asked her to marry him.

     The ceremony for Arturo's father is going on Arturo is awarded a ribbion. After it is over Nora say she has to leave and she has a suprise. Arturo recives an envelope inside it is a job invitation to work in Calf. the opportunity he has been waiting for. So later he goes to see Nora and tell he that the wedding will have to be postponed she say that's fine that if she did'nt let him go she couldn't live with herselft but that she has a bad feeling she is going to lose him. He leaves and she is crying.

     At Arturo's house everyone is eating and Paulina's grandpa and brother show up to with a birthday present for her and say that they have come to spend her birthday there but she is in Calif. her little brother forgot tell them.

     Leonardo tell Casilda that they should divorce being that she can't keep her end of the fake marriage up she tell him no that she will change. She goes to see ? (lady that was housekeeper) and tell her she needs help to keep Leonardo she offers to help her for money. Before this Leonardo packs his bags to go out of town and Casilda questions him and he tell her that he will be back and she offers to go to his apartment for his mail and some papers.

     Paulina is on the phone and finds out that her brother and grandpa had come to see her in the background some weird guy is watching her. So later she goes out to eat alone and is very sad about spending her birthday alone the come a waiter with a cake (flan) and the come Arturo with the gift her brother had made her. The have dinner and drink a little and Arturo walks her to her room and says good night. There is a knock at the door Paulina answers and it is the guy who was watching her earlier he attacks her trying to rape and Arturo is in his room and realizes her forgot to give her a card from his grandpa he hears Paulina screaming and burst in and takes the guy on the police come and take the guy away. Arturo goes back to his room but later Paulina come and knock on the door and asks in her can come and just stay until she falls asleep he agrees off they go but Paulina can't sleep so he offers he a drink and they talk and she is drunk and kisses Arturo and straight to the bed they go (the is not shown but is a assumtion)

     The next moring Paulina wakes up to find Arturo in her bed they both promise to keep it a secret but Arturo say he will tell Nora. Arturo call Nora to tell her he loves her and that when her returns he has something to tell her.

     The crazy housekeeper with red lipstick call Nora who has returned to Mexico to come home she goes and is sent to work but Casilda. The housekeeper offers to go to Leonardo's apartment but then later fake having back pain and Nora agrees to go. But the housekeeper has talk to the man who gave Nora her money and has tried to sell her agian to him by telling him that she will be there. Upon he arrival at the apartment he start kissing her she punches him and leaves.

     The next day this man come to the house and get the money he paid for Nora back and tells Nora she will have to pay back the money he gave her.

     xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

 

     www.telenovela-world.com:  7/27/04 Summary AEMP - English  Author: Jardinera654 (---)  Date:   07-28-04 10:24 PDT

     That next morning, Nora finds Evaristo quarelling with Isaura and asks how dare he show up there after the night before. Evaristo brought over IOU's and Nora signs all of them, but he leaves threatening jail if she doesn't pay up. Isaura asks why she got herself into such a jam and Nora says he tricked her. Isaura asks her why she just didn't pay the money back and Nora answers because it was an awful lot. Isaura warns her that she'd better pay up or he really will put her in jail.-- Renata and Juan Carlos tell her dad they're coming to cover Rafa's exhibition in Morelia. -- While Nora's sewing on a dress for one of Pilar's customers she's worrying about getting herself out of this financial mess without letting either Leonardo or Arturo know. Most of all she doesn't want to get Casilda mad at her again for mixing in with Leonardo.--Casilda's talking to "Madrina" again about what a waste of time it is trying to get Leonardo to love somebody like her.

     Paulina calls her dad and tells him Arturo showed up with her gifts and Silverio exclaims what a nice man to offer since he was going to Miami anyway.--Casilda walks in on Nora while she's up in her bedroom appreciating the dress she's just finished making. Snidely, Casilda reminds Nora a dress like that is way too expensive and out of reach for anyone not of the proper position in society. Then she reminds Nora again to stay away from Leonardo and Nora agrees, saying soon she'll pleasantly surprise her and be sure to be out of their way, permanently. --At the training center in Miami, Arturo keeps remembering making love to both Nora and Paulina and that he should never have let things go so far that night with Paulina. He feels guilty for what he's done to both, but for different reasons. --At the publishing house Renata's being given the task of sifting through all the readers' letters to find the most interesting to highlight in the premier issue of "Prisms". Then Juan Carlos and Renata start to discuss his feelings for Paulina and Renata says that she thinks Paulina will accept him. --Diana and Renata are eating later together at some restaurant and she reminds him of some pesky caller named Victor Gorduño who is demanding an appointment. He nastily tells her to take care of it; that's why he has her....."

     Roberto is rehearsing and Alfredo pops up to congratulate him again after the song is finished. He's asking as two guys from the same town for Roberto's help with a second chance to perform. Roberto answers it's not his decision. --Back at Mirta's home she, Renata, her dad and Ana Marie are discussing the pile of letters to the magazine the hopeful readers have sent in. Mirta explains to her mom that these women are writing in about all sorts of personal problems, and that many of them just use fake names if they are too embarrassed to have anyone know who they are.--Leo returns from N.Y. and refuses a mean again, then goes up for a bath and a nap.--Mirta's mom later confronts her husband with the photos she took out of the trash, but Don Felipe says it was none of her business. Ana Marie says that's been the problem for too long, his ignoring her and she tells him she's planning to separate from him. --Leo goes up to Nora's room for a chat and she tells him Arturo's out of the country training for his new position, but as soon as he's back they're marrying. --Paulina can't stop obsessing about Arturo and going to bed with him that night. In spite of knowing it was wrong, and that he's marrying Nora, and in spite of the fact he could never love her the way he loves Nora, she just can't get that night out of her head.

     Leo finds a dead bird hidden in his shirts while getting dressed. --Ana Marie writes and anonymous letter about her marital problems, signs it with a different name and buries it in Renata's stack on the table. --Felipe finds Mirta packing in her bedroom and asks her why. Mirta blurts out it's because Arturo has decided to marry another woman and so she's decided to return to N.Y. --Ana Marie later tells her she shouldn't have discussed this with her dad, but Mirta blows it off and says since Arturo's out of the country training, Don Felipe won't bother with him. --Later, at the table with Casilda, Nora and Isaura, Leonardo brings up the dead bird and explains to Nora that this is a part of witchcraft and the bird is a charm used to cast a love-spell on a person. Both Isaura and Casilda deny any knowledge of witchcraft and spells or charms. Leonardo warns that stuff will not work on him and then drops the "poor little animal" into Casilda's waterglass. --Roberto's guitarist doesn't show for the rehearsal since he's gotten a different job. Alfredo jumps up and asks to replace him since he plays and is part of the whole entertainment scene, anyway. Roberto agrees to the audition and ends up giving Alfredo the lead guitar position with his band.

     At Nora's Leonardo angrily gets up from the table and goes upstairs after warning Casilda not to try anymore stupid witchcraft out on him. He goes up to his room and starts drinking heavily. --Nora's back sewing in her bedroom and thinking about Arturo, and paying off all her debts by sewing for Pilar's customers when Leonardo bursts in falling-down drunk. He's crying that he's still so in love with her; he admits that even though he's sleeping with Gisela he only does it for passion, not for love. Nora stares at disbelief at this revelation and he says it's been going on for a long time now. Nora reminds him she isn't interested in him as anything but a good friend; as soon as Arturo returns they're getting married and he's got to stay with Casilda and away from her. He cannot come back into her bedroom again. Outside the room Isaura is listening to all this and then jumps back into the shadows when Leonardo stumbles out and heads off for his own bedroom. --In Sergio's office the Garduño breaks in on him and Diana kissing. He explains he's in there at the request of a powerful politician who wants better press from the Orellana organization. He's willing to pay Segio a lot for it.

     That night Paulina is in her room and admits that in spite of his great love for Nora, she can't forget sleeping with Arturo and keeps seeing the image of the two of them together in her bed that night. --Arturo keeps pacing between the bed and the window. He's angry with himself that he let himself get so carried away with the moment that night with Paulina. He tells himself that nothing justifies what he's done to those two women; for both of them it was their first time with a man and now he's ended up hurting Paulina and will also end up hurting Nora; and all of it is something that goes against his principles. --Nora wakes up from another nightmare in which Tia, Isaura, Alfredo and she are all at her father's grave. They're screaming at her that she's a fool; how dare she not marry for money; and they warn her Arturo will ruin her life. He'll be no different from any of the other men she knows.

     The next day Renata and Paulina discuss Juan Carlos' proposal and why she should accept it. Paulina says she'll discuss her reasons for balking when she gets back to Mexico City. --Nora calls Arturo at the training center because she needs to hear his voice and he tells her how much he misses her and is constantly thinking of her. --At the dress shop Pilar admits to Nora that once she had a lover, too. Unfortunately, he left her and she never heard of him again. That's the reason she says she thinks Nora should step back a bit from this obsession with Arturo. Her plans could turn out differently from what she's expecting whether she likes it or not. Nora doesn't agree. --Paulina looks at her graduation dress and remembers how she met Nora by accident and how they remarked on their similar tastes. She feels really bad because of Nora. --Gisela stops in at Pilar's to pick up the dress Nora had just delivered. Gisela is catty with Nora and wonders if Nora made it or Pilar, but Pilar says as long as she likes it, who cares. Before Gisela leaves she tells Nora how they miss her at the cardgames and would she come with Casilda for one tomorrow with Casilda. Nora accepts. After Gisela leaves Pilar warns her against playing because she could lose for once also.

     Don Felipe visits Arturo at the training center and asks him for an explanation regarding his ending it with Mirta. Arturo says it's none of his business but he was always truthful to Mirta who knew he was in love with someone else. He never had promised her anything but to try. In spite of Don Felipe they did try but it didn't work and he left her to avoid hurting her further. Don Felipe asks if he was in fact marrying somebody else and Arturo says yes. Don Felipe accuses him of knowing through Diego that he's always been a womanizer, and says he's not going to let him forget how he treated Mirta. He leaves and the training engineer admits he heard the whole conversation and not to let this interfere with his job. --In the parking lot, thought Don Felipe is attacked and robbed then left for dead.--At the magazine Renata chooses the anonymous letter from Mirta's mother. Mirta tries to resign, but Juan Carlos tells her she cannot run from her problems in life.--Isaura gives Casilda a love potion to put in Leonardo's food and his drinks. She warns Casilda there's another woman from his past who hold the power of his love. --Gisela shows up then at Leonardo's old apartment which he's converting into his new "investments office". While there Evaristo knocks and she goes hiding into the bedroom. Evaristo warns Leonardo against stealing all his clients or he will ruin him. Then he leaves and Gisela comes out saying don't believe it. Come into the bedroom with me. --The cops show up at the training center wanting Arturo to come identify Don Felipe since the only thing left on him was Arturo's name and the center's address. He agrees.

     The exhibition starts at Quiroga's hotel. Rafa is told Renata and J. Carlos are due soon. --Claudia comes back into town and plans to attend the exhibition and to look up Rafa. --J. Carlos arrives at Rafa and Don Silverio's to ask for Paulina's hand. Don Silverio agrees but says it will be her choice, not his.--Arturo calls Mirta with the bad news about her father and says he needs faxed permission to represent them with the hospital. He promises to bring him back to Mexico City to an eminent surgeon the hospital is calling for them. --At Casilda's she serves Leonardo a drink with the potion in it and it's so bad tasting Leonardo spits it out and all over her. She's left shocked and embarrassed. --Renata calls her dad about Don Felipe and says she's staying with Mirta and not going to make it to the exhibition. Julian agrees to tell Juan Carlos. None of the guests are to know and he'll leave for M.C. right away. The exhibition starts and Rafa isn't told why Renata isn't coming. Claudia appears and latches onto him while he's getting a call from Cathy telling him that she's ready to import his group's first shipment into the States. --At the hospital Arturo tell Mirta and Ana Marie why Don Felipe was in Miami. They tell him not to blame himself it for Don Felipe's situation; it was not his fault and that he'd acted honorably throughout all of it. Abuelo Sandoval shows up. --Paulina comes home and Covadonga tells her the news about Mirta's dad. --Jessica is in Sergio's office when he finds out about Don Felipe and asks her to come along. --

     At Gisela's Nora and Casilda arrive and Evarist is wating to ask Nora for his money again. Gisela says Nora should catch up with them when she's done talking to her husband. He warns Nora that if she doesn't pay up by the date given she's being taken to jail. --When Nora sits down at the cardtable Gisela says,"I must have been misunderstood or didn't explain to you correctly. I asked you here to serve drinks, not to play." --At the hospital Jessica runs right to Juan Carlos and he gruffly says he wasn't expecting her there. Then Paulina arrives and he gives her a kiss. Jessica tells her to get lost and Juan Carlos shuts her up quickly by telling her that Paulina and he are now engaged. -------------

 

Telenovela-World:  summary by Jardinero654 for July 28, 2004

     As Paulina comes in the door to the Pension from Miami, Covadonga tells her that Mirta's dad was assaulted and robbed, hit on the head and left for dead while on a trip to the States. Apparently, Arturo flew him back to Mexico on a private plane himself and says he's really in serious condition. Paulina shivers at Arturo's name. --Sergio gets word and makes sure Jessica knows if she comes to the hospital with him he doesn't want any trouble with Juan Carlos because of it. --At Gisela and Evaristo's, Evaristo asks Nora if she's intending to pay him back on time and if she intends to win from his wife in order to do it. She says that's her business, because Gisela invited her. Not to worry, though as he'll get back every cent. Nora goes into the game room and sits down with the other women and smiling painfully, asks what they'll be playing. Gisela pipes up that she is sorry for the misunderstanding. Nora wasn't there to play, but because Gisela was short serving staff and since Nora was needing the money, she thought Nora could assist them by serving drinks today. --Jessica kissed Juan Carlos hello in the hospital waiting room and then Paulina shows up. Juan Carlos pointedly kisses Paulina hello. When Paulina politely asks Jessica how she's doing, Jessica says things were fine "till you arrived." J. Carlos loses his cool and tells Jessica she's the one who ought to leave since Paulina and he are getting married. Shocked, Jessica says it's a joke, right? No, so she runs out threatening to get even with Juan Carlos. --Nora is sugary sweet and deliberate with her reply: "Gisela, although to serve is not a job one should be ashamed of, I came to play and not to serve -unless of course, you're frightened of me because I always win?" Gisela purrs back, "That was only luck, dear and that's finished now." Nora stares her in the eye, "Care to prove it?" Gisela stares back,” Okay, fine, but you're going to lose." Casilda pops up and asks Nora, "Do you have the money because I'm not loaning you any." Nora doesn't take her eyes off Gisela and replies, "I have the money Pilar just paid me. It's plenty."

     They begin to play. --Sergio explains to Juan Carlos how Jessica forced herself on him and says he never wanted a scene like that. J. Carlos says to forget it. Then Paulina angrily tells her boss he had no right to embarrass her like that telling people they were engaged when they weren't even dating. He apologizes and reminds her that it was just because she's his whole life to him. Arturo greets Paulina and asks how she's been feeling. She replies, badly. He admits he's not told Nora yet because he hasn't a chance to see her face to face. Diego enters and refuses Arturo's handshake. He tells Arturo he's not wanted or needed here. Arturo says good-bye to Paulina and him and goes. Mirta gets mad at Diego and tells him it was Arturo who arranged for the surgeon and flew their dad back in a private plane. He's the reason their dad's still alive.

     The women keep playing poker and the pot is huge. Gisela deals out extra cards and tries to get Nora to say something in order to trick a "tell" from her. Nora's not so naive. Gisela doubles her ante and Nora matches her. Gisela shows her hand: 3 Aces. Nora sweetly says, "Oh wellllll. I have a full house" and wins the pot. She then asks if they'll be playing another hand and Gisela answers of course, "That's why we're there. Betina shuffle?" Nora wins again and suggests to Gisela, "If you don't want to pay me, you can always serve me something. Champagne would be nice, in fact you haven't given us anything this whole time." Gisela gets up and say's she's not about to serve anything and she'll be back with her check in a bit. Casilda mentions how fortunate it is Nora's good at cards. Betina pipes up," Lucky at play unlucky at love. That's the way it is for you these days, isn't it, Nora?" Nora responds sweetly, "Actually I'm luckier in love than play these days. Very much so."

     The doctor tells Diego's family that she's not hopeful, because there's been a lot of brain damage. Diego weeps for the first time.--Rafa At the exhibition Claudia tells Rafa he's wasting his time with a snob like Renata. From the first she's only wanted to belittle him. She suggests they go celebrate his success and they go out. At dinner Claudia suggests he and she go somewhere she can make him forget all about Renata. They end up at a motel. After the deed she tells him he was her first lover. He's bored and disillusioned with it all. --Leonardo overhears Nora tell Isaura that same evening that her winnings will help put a big down payment on the debt she owes Evaristo. He immediately wants to know why she's in debt to his old boss and Nora says it's just from cards and not much. He replies that if she needs financial support she's to count on him for it. Nora says fine, thanks, but no thanks and goes up to bed. Isaura comes over to him and says she's in debt far greater than she'd admit. If you want to help you can give me the money and I'll discreetly hand it over to her. Leonardo responds that if Nora needs help he figures she trusts him enough to ask him for it herself.

     The next morning Nora is telling Isaura she's off to the bank to cash Gisela's check and make her first payment to Evaristo. Isaura tells her to stop and think again about taking Evaristo as her protector because the debt she owes is so large. Nora explodes at her! "I am fed up with you! Never! Don't you ever bring this subject up to me again. I am never going to take him or anyone else as a lover, and least of all this damned creep!!" --Diego's mom is crying about the fact they never got to communicate their true feelings to Don Felipe and now it's probably too late. --Alfredo is complaining to Gertrudis he should be the one auditioning to the record company, not Roberto. --Nora is downtown and tries to call long distance to Arturo at the training center but can't get through. She gets an idea and calls Pilar to help her with it. --At the magazine Paulina and Renata are just about to discuss what happened in Miami when J. Carlos comes to take them to Roberto's big audition. --Sergio and Gerduño exchange money for a finished copy of his favorable editorial. -- In their dressing room Alfredo and Roberto are talking when Roberto receives a gift bottle of tequila. The card says it's from Claudia, of all people. Alfredo talks Roberto into taking a swig "to clear his throat" and calm his nerves. While he does Alfredo smirks to himself, "You idiot, Roberto. It was I who sent that with Claudia's name on it to throw you off the track. If you only knew how I've prepared it so that one swallow will act as if you'd drunk the whole thing." Roberto is passed out when Juan Carlos and the two girls come for him. Alberto suggests he's ready to fill in and since they can't wake him up Alberto auditions in Roberto's place. It's a big success.

     At Don Silverio's Rafa is telling his dad he needs advice because of going to bed with Claudia the night before. He admits he did it only to try to forget his love for Renata. He's sorry for it because Claudia apparently was a virgin, yet marriage isn't something he wants to think about. His dad says if she hadn't been a virgin, it would be different, but think what you'd do if the same had been done to your sister. Act accordingly.--At Claudia's she's laughing about telling Rafa he was her first. Her friends say he's going to do well now with that export business of his. She says yeah, I think he'd make a good catch now. --When Roberto wakes up he swears he never drank the bottle up. Renata finds Claudia's card and Paulina suggests she put something in it to wreck his audition. --Nora makes a surprise visit to Arturo's room at the hotel in Miami. She wakes him up with a kiss and he is more than a little bit surprised and happy. They spend the night together.--Sergio and Diana go out drinking and she asks him how he has so much to spend on just an editor's salary. He says he's made some good business dealings on the outside.

     The next morning Arturo is in his instructor, the "Ingeniero's," office discussing Nora's surprise night visit. He doesn't know how she dared to do this. The instructor says it's good she didn't get caught because it would've gone down badly for him with the company. However, as long as he doesn't repeat it, fine. Love can't be challenged. Besides, he's sure Arturo was just as into it as she was and Arturo smiles, saying he can't deny it. --At Casilda's that same morning Leonardo's asking why Nora's not at breakfast. Isaura says she got a call that there was so much to do at Pilar's she spent the night there. Casilda giggles that maybe it was a lover. Leonardo shuts her up with a stare and says Nora's a grown woman and free to live as she likes. --Ana Marie and Julian discuss the photos of Joaquin and Julian says he recognizes him as an acquaintance of somebody who recently died in Morelia. He offers to find out more. --Rafa finds Claudia a while later and explains,I didn't love you although we slept together, but you're pretty and amiable and I like you. So if you want, we can get engaged. She says good.--Casilda and Isaura are screaming up in her bedroom about her husband daring to defend Nora like that. Isaura says it doesn't matter if he pays attention to Nora or not, they still have business pending. She still owes her for helping get rid of her Madrina for her. Casilda screams back the money's being invested for the next month and she can't so she'll just have to wait for it. --Arturo finds out from Abuelo Sandoval that Don Felipe may never wake up from his coma but Arturo is not to feel like it's his fault.--Casilda continues with Isaura that Nora just may have a lover. Isaura says she is the last person who should be judging Nora after her "spirited" adventures with Heriberto. In fact they're almost like sisters they are so alike in things. Casilda is left puzzling over that remark. --Paulina comes home late and depressed. Abuelo and Covadonga remark afterward that since she came back from Miami she's been acting really strange and sad. --Arturo is agonizing over how badly he's betrayed Nora's trust.

     The next morning Roberto apologizes at the staff meeting and quits, but Juan Carlos says not to. Forget and forgive. --Alfredo tells Gertrudis he just signed a record contract.--Julian leaves the management of the hotel to Gilda while he makes arrangements to start looking for information about Joaquin. He ignores an advance from Gilda and she leaves, embarrassed.--Paulina finally admits what happened with Arturo in Miami over her birthday. She's in love with him and did it gladly. She'd been lying to herself the whole time. Renata says he's marrying someone else, and this was crazy. Paulina says she never meant to get in the way of his other relationship, so now she'll have to love him in silence.--Arturo is confiding about Paulina to his instructor and how he's so upset things went so far that night. He loves Nora and Paulina was just a bit of passion due to being thrown together that night. The instructor asks if Paulina means anything to him and he says no, there could never be anything either. It just "isn't". So the instructor advises him to never tell Nora and just let it go and move on with his life. There's no reason to hurt her about this. --Julian finds out from Isaura and Casilda that Joaquin had Tia buy him a house in Mexico City. Julian says great. That gives him a start at locating him.

     When Nora returns from Miami Casilda warns her against shaming her Madrina's memory. Nora assures her she has nothing to feel sorry for. Casilda replies: "Wish to God it's so." --One month later Nora checks the result of an in-home pregnancy test and finds out that she's expecting Arturo's baby...............................

 

     www.telenovela-world.com:  Thurs. 07/29/04 English Summary  Author: Jardinera654 (---)  Date:   07-30-04 08:42 PDT  Thursday: 07/29 English Summary AEMP

     Paulina finally admits to Renata what happened with Arturo in Miami over her birthday. She's in love with Arturo and went to bed with him gladly. She'd been lying to herself the whole time and realizes she did it because she’s fallen in love with him. Renata says he's marrying someone else, and this was crazy. Paulina says she never meant to get in the way of his other relationship, so now she'll just have to love him in silence. Renata promises to stand by her no matter what. –In Julian’s office Casilda and Isaura give what information they can about Joaquin because it’s for a business associate who needs to locate him. They tell Julian about the house Tia bought for him in Mexico City just before she died. –Ana Marie tells her therapist she’s quitting the sessions and agrees to continue taping her innermost thoughts. –Nora comes back from Miami hardly able to wait for the month of Arturo’s training to finish. One month later she’s looking at the results of a home pregnancy test and is thrilled to find she’s expecting his baby. She has two days left till he comes for her and they get married. –In Miami Arturo is told by his instructor that he’s done so well he’s finished 2 days ahead of schedule and asks Arturo if he’s had a chance to tell his fiancé. Arturo says only his Abuelo knows yet, but he’ll try to contact Nora. –He flies back that afternoon with his trainer to Mexico City.

     Isaura asks why Nora’s so excited but when Nora tells her the two of them argue that she’s shamed herself by not being married. Nora says she’s to marry in 2 days and she’ not ashamed of the baby. Isaura complains that after all that’s happened Nora is as naïve as ever. She can do whatever she wants, but if the wedding doesn’t come off Nora cannot come crying to her later. –Gisela calls the house looking for Leonardo and Casilda overhears. She grabs the phone and demands to know who is speaking. Gisela just hangs up. Casilda jealously takes the phone of the hook so whoever-she-is cannot call back. –Just then Arturo calls the house but of course cannot get through because the phones off the hook. –Paulina is sick and nervous at the thought of Arturo’s return because she knows it will be impossible to stay there knowing he’s in love with someone else and marrying her soon. –Gisela tracks Leonardo down at his old apartment now fully transformed into his business office. She offers him a diskette full of information about Evaristo’s clients, but he refuses to do business that way and gives it back to her. He tells her to leave because he’s really too busy to talk now.

     Isaura and Casilda discuss reconnecting with Heriberto to take the edge off Casilda. If she can’t have sex with Leonardo she might as well use Heriberto as a substitute. That way she won’t anger Leonardo by clinging to him so much. Isaura offers to make the contact again. Casilda thinks seriously about another tryst again. --Gertrudis and Heriberto are watching Alfredo ham it up on a TV. program. Gertrudis is patting herself on the back about how right she was concerning Alfredo’s possibilities. Heriberto shoots back that Alfredo was the one who benefited, and he’d just taken advantage of her, but he stops short of explaining to her exactly what he means by that. –Julian tells Ana Marie that Joaquin Arcadio was the man’s name and that although he owned the house in Mexico City he turned around and sold it right after Alejandra’s death. –At work, Juan Carlos pressures Paulina for her answer to his marriage proposal. She says later and they agree he’ll come that night to the Pension for her response. –That afternoon Arturo arrives back at the Pension and everyone greets and congratulates him. He tells Abuelo that he’s been unable to tell Nora that he’s back 2 days ahead of schedule. Abuelo voices his concern that Nora seems to be overly dependent upon him and that that could be a problem with all his time away flying. Arturo says he thinks it will make her more independent.

     Juan Carlos complains to Sergio that the magazine is becoming too slanted towards this politico who’s under investigation. Sergio promises to correct this error and J. Carlos admonishes him that it’s a very “delicate matter”……. –Leonardo is on his way for another business trip and tells Nora that she looks….”radiant.” Casilda comes running down the stairs to drive him to the airport in her new car and so Nora doesn’t get the chance to tell him it’s because she’s pregnant with Arturo’s child. –Evaristo comes for another payment and Nora says tomorrow and not before, so, "Leave." She tells him she has to ready things for her wedding and he quips back about the guy not knowing how much money she owes. She says doesn’t matter because she’s going to pay him herself and get married with her held high. He scoffs and threatens her with jail. She answers back that it will be a pleasure to say hello to him when she sees him there, too. –Sergio tells Gerduño that Juan Carlos is getting wise and is pressuring him to back off having the magazine put so much support behind this politician. He’s worried he could get fired. Gerduño warns him the deal was full, unconditional support no matter what. – Evaristo leaves screaming to Isaura he’s not falling for anymore of her games again. She’s angry and just then the phone rings. She answers it and it’s Arturo, not knowing Isaura’s voice asks for Nora. She lies and says Nora’s gone and is on a trip somewhere. He asks her to tell Nora he’s back now and she says um-hummmmmmmm and hangs up. Nora yells down asking who just called and Isaura deliberately lies saying it was only a client of Leonardo’s. --Ana Marie is paying the last of the expensive hospital bills and says that she’s expecting a special nurse to come live with them now that Don Felipe is being brought back home and is still comatose.

     That evening Juan Carlos calls on Paulina and they begin discussing their non-existent relationship. She says she’s not going to marry him because she’s in love with someone else. No, he’s not in love with her and probably doesn’t even know how she feels. He says if there’s a possibility she’d be able to get over the other man he’d be there for her. She says no. Arturo arrives back from the pensioner’s celebratory dinner out with him and walks in on the two of them. –Late at night the maid comes in to find Nora unable to sleep and in the kitchen rooting around. She tells her she’s unable to sleep because she’s getting married in 2 days. The maid goes out to the living room and sees a “vision” of the ghost of Alejandra walking up the stairs and begins screaming. It turns out to be Casilda dressed up like her madrina. Casilda goes back into the bedroom and begins talking to herself/Alejandra again. –Back downstairs at the Pension Arturo runs into Paulina in her old bathrobe and she asks if he’s told Nora about them yet. He says no, but he is going to because he’s sure she’ll realize it was only “passion of the moment” and not love so she’ll be ready to forgive and to forget. Paulina isn’t so sure and suggests he just forget telling her altogether. She assures him it hadn’t meant anything to her either and goes up to bed thinking, “If you only knew I’m in love with you!”

     The next morning he and she are forced to sit next to each other at breakfast and feeling really awkward. She can’t eat again. At work she promises Mirta to accompany her to the hospital when Don Felipe is discharged. –In the meantime Arturo’s been given a new route that will be based half out of Morelia and then half based internationally. While the Ingeniero and Arturo are discussing it, Diego walks in and Arturo is presented as Diego’s new captain for the 2 new routes they’ll be sharing. Neither of them is comfortable with this news. –Pilar tells Nora she’s happy about the baby, but worried again that she’s too wound up with this Arturo. She asks her to reconsider having Arturo help her with the debt because otherwise she’s certain to be put in jail. (Nora still doesn’t know Arturo is back from his training.) Pilar has some appointments with clients she’s late for and Nora offers to stay at the shop, working so Pilar can get away. She says there’ll be plenty of time to speak with Arturo when he’s back in Morelia and she’ll forego meeting him at the airport as she’d planned. –Paulina goes with Mirta to the hospital. She’s waiting alone in the lounge when Arturo greets her. He’s there to help with the discharge too, if he can. Paulina faints and Arturo gets the doctor who does a few tests on her. –Don Felipe’s new private nurse arrives and introduces herself to Ana Marie. –The doctor comes for Arturo when the tests are done and leaves him and Paulina alone to discuss the results. Paulina tells Arturo she’s expecting his baby.

 

     www.telenovela-world.com:  Summary Friday 7/30/04  Author: Marietta (---)  Date:   07-30-04 21:15 PDT

     Paulina discovers her pregnancy and tells Arturo. He tells her that he will support her by recognizing the baby and giving it his name. He is clear, however, that he wants to continue with his plans to marry Nora.

     The therapist, Demiana (I'm guessing on spelling), arrives at the hospital to accompany Don Felipe home. Ana Maria is surprised that D. is an indigenous woman. Mirta explains that she met D. when she was doing a story on indigenous women. We learn that Felipe is racist and that his secretary has worn a wig and colored contact lenses to avoid Felipe knowing about her origins. We hear Felipe's thoughts , including his wonderment that a lowly indigenous woman would be caring for him. She clearly knows what she is doing as a therapist, however, and asks for light and plants in the room and tells AM that Felipe can hear and sense what is going on. There is a touching scene late in the episode when Diego tells his father that he is giving up flying in order to take care of the family business. Felipe says to himself that he doesn't deserve Diego's love and unselfish actions.

     Paulina shares the news of the pregnancy with Renata. They have the first of several conversations where P. repeats that she loves Arturo, brought this on herself and will not try to change his attitude toward marrying Nora. She expresses her shame and feeling that she has disappointed her father and brother. Renata says that Nora will be furious with Arturo, which seems to open the door to P. to at least wonder if there isn't a future with Arturo.

     The women in the pension gossip with Don Clemente about why Paulina is feeling so poorly. Covadonga wonders if she might not be pregnant. Maybe she was with someone in Miami. Pascuala wonders if it wasn't Arturo. Fast forward to DC entering Arturo's room as he gets confirmation over the phone from the doctor that Pau is indeed pregnant. DC goes balistic at the idea that Arturo could have been involved in this. DC has given Silverio and Rafe his word that he will care for Pau and this is what his grandson does! Arturo assures him that he did not force Pau to sleep with him. Poor DC begins to have chest pains as they discuss the future. He takes a pill and calms down as Arturo assures him that he will stand by Paulina, although he will marry Nora. DC warns Arturo that Nora may not forgive him and he can understand why she may not.

     Nora continues to be deliriously happy about her pregnancy and Arturo's return. Isaura taunts her with the notion that Arturo will disappoint her. I. says she never wanted to have children, they are a pain, especially if one has to raise them alone. Casilda is thrilled that Nora is planning to marry and, best of all, move away to Mexico. She still doesn't know about the pregnancy. I. later tells C. that she has a bad feeling about Arturo's intentions toward Nora.

     Covadonga has a problem. She is expecting money from her nephew in Spain. The group at the pension is concerned for her. They intercept a letter from the wife of the nephew saying that they can't afford to help her. The group enlists Arturo to help Covedonga without letting her know.

     Diana discovers, again with the counsel of Covadonga and the women at the pension, that she is pregnant. Sergio refuses to get the divorce he's supposedly been planning to get. He wants her to find a way to end the pregnancy. She threatens to tell Juan Carlos the class of man that he is. She eventually goes to the orphanage where Manolo (one of the pension members) works. She asks about leaving a recently born baby there. She then tells him that she is pregnant. He wants to help her (he is in love with her). She gives a touching speech about how a woman can't embrace the idea of a pregnancy when she is alone and without support.

     Pau and Don Clemente talk. She is mortified that he knows about the pregnancy but he is encouraging in telling her that she is a member of his family, that she is bearing his great grandchild and that he knows that Arturo would never hurt anyone. She calls her father, but speaks only for a moment. Silverio later tells the little boy that lives by them in Morelia that he is concerned about Pau -- she sounds like something isn't quite right.

     Nora asks Pilar to be her madrina for the wedding. She also tells Pilar that Casilda has begun to adopt the language, style, mannerisms of Alejandra. Nora asks Leonardo to walk her down the aisle. He hesitates because he doesn't want to give her to another man, but finally agrees. She leaves to see Arturo who is on his way to Morelia.

     Evaristo visits Heriberto as E. is thinking about buying a hotel. They talk about Nora and E. tells H. about how he has forced N. to sign an IOU or face jail. E. then shares with H. the news that Nora is about to marry, wearing white. Heriberto looks surprised and like he could be up to something.

     Paulina is sitting in the publishing office crying. Juan Carlos comes in and insists on knowing why. She tells him that she is pregnant.

     Arturo meets Nora near the fountain, their usual place. They embrace passionately. He gets right to the point. He says: I adore you, I love you. Don't forget how I feel about you. He then tells her the news that he slept with Paulina and that she is pregnant.

     The episode ends with Nora looking shocked. Preview seems to indicate that she tells him to get lost, runs to Leonardo for comfort. Leo he'll divorce Casilda to take care of Nora. Last scene in the preview has Arturo climbing up to the balcony, entering the room, as Leonardo threatens to shoot him. Can't wait until Monday!!!

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Summary Mon Aug. 2nd  Author: BettyBoop (---)  Date:   08-03-04 07:59 PDT

     Arturo and Nora meet at the waterfountain and Nora is so excited to find out where they will marry and they both have something to tell each other Arturo goes first and starts explaing that her and Paulina met up in Florida and that they spent the night together and that she is pregnant Nora is furious and start pushing him around and screaming at him for being such a pocrita. She tries to run off but her stop her and tries to explain that he loves her and still want's to marry her but she tell him that she never wants to see him agian in her lift and to let her go.

     Nora is walking the street and thinking to herself she say that he can never find out about the baby she will lhave and she will move forward with her life. She finally goes home and is crying Leonardo comes running to find out what is going on and she tells him Arturo cheated on her and has another woman pregnant.

     Leonardo tell Nora that all she has to do is say one word and he will divorce Casilda and be with her well she gives him a lecture that all men are cruel and only care about them selves and don't care who the hurt or who's dreams they crush. Casilda is out side the door listening. Nora tell Leonardo to leave he alone.

     Arturo climbs the balcony to Nora room and tries again to talk to her Leonardo comes in and tell him to leave he say that he won't so Leonardo puts out a gun and threatens to kill him Casilda begs Arturo to leave he finally does but says only not hurt Nora anymore.

     All the while Paulina is curious as to what happened with Nora and Arturo. Juan Carlos offers to marry her and help raise her baby but she refuses because she doesn't love him.

     Arturo spends the night outside Nora's house the housekeeper goes out side and gives him some coffee and Isaura finds out about and Leonardo hear this and call the police and tell them he as a supicious man out side his house and wants him gone. The police come and take Arturo away and the police tell him to stay away or the wil arrest him the next time.

     But Arturo goes right back and sees Isuara walkin and ask her for help she refuses and tell him to go be with his child and Paulina.

     Arturo goes home and talks with his grandpa and he is not suprised by Nora's actions but Arturo insists that he will talk to her somehow.

     At the end Isaura and Casilda and are talking and trying to figure out what to do because casilda is very scared the Leonaro will leave her for Nora so she goes in Nora' room and tell her she has to leave first thing in the morning and never come back.

     Re: Summary Mon Aug. 2nd  Author: Jardinera654 (---)  Date:   08-04-04 08:32 PDT

     BettyBoop: Only one little part. Do you remember this?

     Isaura begins to think to herself it won't do for Nora to know Arturo still wants to marry her, and only just give the baby his name. Nora cannot be allowed to know this and to forgive Arturo, since Isaura wants to try again to persuade Nora to become Evaristo's lover. So she pays him visit and tells him all about Nora breaking up with Arturo. Evaristo goes to Arturo's hotel, buys him a quick drink and realizes Isaura was telling him the truth about Nora this time.

 

     08/03 ENGLISH SUMMARY AEMP -CORRECTED VS.  Author: Jardinera654 (---)  Date:   08-04-04 08:02 PDT

     08/03 ENGLISH SUMMARY AEMP:

     Arturo returns to Mexico City and tells his Abuelo that Nora refused to listen to him or to forgive him. --Casilda tells Nora she’s to leave the house and never to return.-- Paulina sits down with Covadonga and tells her she’s so upset she cannot keep quiet any longer about her condition. She’s pregnant. Covadonga assures her that she should be honest with her family about her situation. Then Paulina goes up to Arturo’s room and asks how things went with Nora in Morelia. He tells her it went pretty badly. She encourages him to insist on seeing her again to smooth things out. – Nora is in her room with her suitcase packing and Casilda explains that last night Arturo wouldn’t leave and Leonardo ended up pulling a gun on him. If she hadn’t begged Arturo to think of the harm he would be causing and Leonardo had shot the gun, he’d be in jail and the whole house would be in such an uproar……..It would just be best if Nora left. When Nora gets downstairs and is at the door, Isaura pretends she’s going to be really upset at Nora’s leaving, turns around and gives Casilda a big wink to know she’s playing it up according to the plan. Nora defends Casilda and says it’s her idea to leave, and not Casilda’s. She’s going to stay a bit with Pilar in the spare room above her dress shop. –Later, after she’s gone, Leonardo comes down asking where she’d gone to and the women tell him where and that she left at dawn unexpectedly. They assure him it was her idea. He goes after her.

     Nora and Pilar get her fixed up in the tiny room there, but Pilar still asks her to come live with her in her house. Nora refuses. She tells Pilar the story. Pilar asks if Arturo realizes she’s pregnant too and Nora says she’s never going to tell him. Then Leonardo arrives and asks for her to come back home. –Isaura gives Casilda a candle and a “passion-inducing incantation” to keep her occupied for awhile. –From the airport in Miami, Arturo calls the house and Luisa answers, but Isaura pounces on her. Luisa lies and says it’s a cousin calling and Isaura leaves telling her to hurry up and not to use the phone again for personal business. Arturo says he caught the whole conversation, then asks where Nora is; Luisa tells him she’s no longer living at the house. –Diana tells Sergio she’s got an appointment to abort the pregnancy. Sergio’s both happy and relieved; he writes her a check to cover all the expenses on the spot, telling her it’s for the best. --Paulina is telling Renata how embarrassed she is to have to tell her family anything. –

     Nora accuses Leonardo, in front of Pilar, of only coming to take her home because, like all men, only wants to sleep with her. He stays calm and asks her not to think so harshly of him. Then he excuses himself and leaves. Nora tells Pilar that now her baby is the only reason for living. Right then the phone rings at Pilar’s and Nora answers. It is Arturo in the States (at the Miami airport). He begs her to listen to him. He swears he still adores and loves her and he tells her that he never wants to lose her. She yells back that she doesn’t like the idea of being his lover while he’s living with his "other family.” She says Arturo’s wasting his time with her. She will never forgive him, and she hopes to succeed in turning every bit of love he has for her into hate for her and she hangs up on him. Arturo leaves the airport and goes to his hotel in Miami. The bellboy takes him up to the exact room that Paulina was staying in the night the two of them slept together. He walks in, sees the bed and very explicitly remembers their sexual encounter. The memory is too painful for him and he demands a different room for the night.

     That night Leonardo is undressing and Casilda peeks in on him. She cannot keep her eyes off of him and he turns around to see her watching him. He is infuriated and grabs her. He drags her to the mirror and pushes her face up close. She’s forced to look at herself in the mirror while he yells at her for ludely spying on him. Leonardo tells her because she’s ugly on the inside as well as on the outside he could never love someone like her: she’s mean, possessive, selfish, and she has neither self-control nor a shred of dignity; she’s repugnant and disgusting and he despises her. –Nora is still distracted so Pilar suggests she come to a gathering of some of Pilar’s friends that night... Nora begs off because she’s just not emotionally up to it. She keeps thinking about Arturo telling her at their fountain all about Paulina and wanting to give the baby a name, adopting it. That’s when Nora says that she’s being punished. Her father and aunt both told her love was non-existent. Pilar disagrees, but Nora continues saying now she’s repentant herself, for having loved Arturo so much. Loving Arturo has been her greatest sin. –Isaura makes a quick call to Evaristo, telling him Nora’s moved out and is living alone. She could use a protector about now. He is excited to hear that Nora and Arturo apparently are no longer getting married.

     Sergio peeks in on Juan Carlos and questions him about how the relationship with Paulina is progressing. He says he’s still in love with her, but nothing’s happening. Sergio runs back to his office and calls Jessica. He tells her that things are at a standstill with creepy Paulina and now’s her chance to jump back in the ring. Come on over to the magazine right now. –Leonardo has been thinking to himself that he was too rough on Casilda and goes looking for her through the house. He finds her in her bedroom, sitting distractedly with a pair of sharp scissors in her hand. She starts cutting her one wrist and he runs in to hear her tell him it’s because she’s so repugnant to him. –At the magazine Paulina tells Juan Carlos she’s afraid to tell her parents about the pregnancy. Jessica arrives and overhears this conversation behind the file cabinets. After Juan Carlos assures Paulina everything will be okay because her family loves her he leaves for a moment. Right then Jessica gets in Paulina’s face and speaks as loudly as she can. She fairly screams at her in front of everyone that she really succeeded in trapping Juan Carlos: she made sure she got pregnant with his child. She’s really nothing more than a brazen slut!

     Later that evening, Evaristo finds Nora upstairs in Pilar’s workshop. He asks her when he’s going to get paid because he’s getting impatient. Then he suggests there are other ways of repaying those IOU’s. He grabs her and traps her, putting his hands all over her. Just as he begins to try to take her by force Gisela knocks and enters the room. She’s in shock as he pulls back from Nora and readjusts his clothing, trying to compose himself.

====FIN====

    

Summary in English 8/4/04  Author: Marietta (---)  Date:   08-04-04 20:19 PDT

     Evarista comes to Pilar's boutique to pressure Nora. As he tells her that Nora can repay him with money or in another way, and comes close to her, Gisela arrives. She accuses Nora of being the kind of woman Betina said she was -- someone who seduces men for money. Nora slaps her. Gisela leaves, taking Evarista with her.

     Jessica arrives in the magazine office and yells at Paulina, saying that she has trapped Juan Carlos with a pregnancy. Paulina tells her that this isn't the case. Jessica leaves, while Sergio looks on, smirking.

     Casilda sits crying as Leonardo bandages her wrist. She says that no one loves her or will love her. Isaura enters, trying to find out what is going on.

     Pilar tells Nora that she wants to talk with Gisela. She doesn't care whether Gisela continues to come to the boutique or not. Nora asks her not to, fearing that other customers will be chased away. She says she doesn't want to cause Pilar trouble.

     Gisela questions Evarista about what he was up to with Nora. He asks that she give it no importance. She tells him that she's been thinking about a divorce. He tells her that they will both lose a lot as the result of a divorce. She says that she will think about it, but in the meantime, she no longer wants to share a bedroom with him.

     Roberto and the other reporter investigating Felix Palacio talk with Dahlia, an older woman, in the cabaret where she works. She's knew Felix P. a long time ago before he became very rich. Her boss comes over and asks the reporters if they are going drinks. He reprimands Dahlia for wasting time with them, telling her that she has the job only out of pity.

     Casilda and Isaura talk. Casilda repeats her fear that she will never be loved. Isaura tells her again that she should have confidence in her. The next morning Isaura and Leo talk. He asks again to know the secret of Casilda's origins.

     Pilar finds someone to buy Nora's wedding gown. With the money she goes to Evarista and pays off more of the debt. She tells him that she has no interest in him or his protection, especially now that she is pregnant. He looks shocked at the news of the pregnancy.

     Sergio suggests that he go with Diana for the abortion. She accepts with appreciation. He says to himself that he is going only to make sure that she goes through with it.

     Arturo goes to see Mirta. He inquires about the health of her father. He tells her that the wedding with Nora is postponed indefinitely. She tells him that he must fight for Nora. Diego arrives, angry that Arturo is there. Arturo says that he wanted only to ask about Don Felipe's health and leaves.

     Nora is hit by a car on leaving Evaristo's. Gisela is driving the car. Nora is taken to the hospital where she begs the doctor, grabbing his lapels, to save her baby. Things are touch-and-go for a while, but eventually the bleeding stops and the baby is ok.

     Covadonga and Diana's friend who is also Juan Carlos' secretary beg her to reconsider the abortion. She yells at them to leave her alone. However, when she gets to the abortion doctor she is horrified. She tells him that she doesn't want to continue with it. He insists on payment. She leaves and Sergio is furious that she hasn't followed through. She runs away.

     Isaura tells Leonardo the truth, that Alejandra was Casilda's mother. She says that Alejandra told her this only shortly before her death because of her hatred of Casilda, because of her conviction that Casilda is ugly. Isaura -- in a rare moment of truth -- says that Leonardo repeated Alejandra's words of hatred and deepened the wound. This is why she tried to kill herself. He wonders how he could have been so hateful. He runs to her room and very tenderly makes love to Casilda. (A wonderful scene, IMHO!)

     When Nora was hit by the car and hospitalized, Arturo couldn't sleep because of a premonition of danger. He calls Pilar's boutique, but no one is there. He goes downstairs in the pension and runs into Paulina, who tells him that she can call her father and Rafe and they will go find out how Nora is. He is afraid that Nora will, in her anger, tell Paulina's family about her pregnancy. Paulina says that she can call the assistant at the workshop and he will inquire discreetly.

     Isaura comes to the hospital and cries big, phony tears of grief over Nora's accident and danger to the baby's life. When it's clear that the baby will survive, she thinks out load that it would be better if the baby died. She continues to carry on. Nora says that accident was a sign from the heavens to forget about Arturo and to dedicate herself completely to the baby. Isaura and Pilar leave to get some things for Nora.

     Paulina calls the workshop assistant and asks that he look into Nora's health. While Isaura waits in her little beetle for Pilar, she spots the assistant and asks what he's doing. He reveals just enough for her to figure out that Arturo is trying to find out how Nora is. She assures him that Nora is fine and then follows him, leaving Pilar to wonder what happened to her ride. Isaura arrives at the workshop where she tells Silverio that her friend Arturo Sandoval has recommended the crafts made there. She later finds out from Nora Paulina's name.

     Breakfast back at the mansion has Casilda looking ecstatic and Leonardo stunned. She is so sweet to him and so grateful. She takes out wedding rings that she bought when she thought there would be a church wedding and kept when the wedding was to be only a civil ceremony, hoping that they might be used some day. In a very tender scene, they exchange rings. Leonardo's expression is both sympathetic to Casilda and grim.

     The boy from the streets that Manolo is caring for is slowly getting better. Manolo goes out and leaves some money for the boy to use to pay the gas bill. His friends come to visit and take the money. The hairdresser friend of the pension group comes to visit as it is determined that the money is missing. The hairdresser goes on and on about the dangers of associating with the street children. The boy leaves.

     Sergio tells Jessica that she must confront Juan Carlos. She does so, accusing him of allowing himself to be trapped by Paulina's pregnancy. They argue and Jessica leaves, for good she says.

     The airline needs Arturo to take over an international route, from NY to Europe. He would rather quit than do this because he believes that a long absence will finish off the relationship with Nora. His boss asks him to do it for a few weeks. He agrees, saying that it will be good for him and Nora to have some time to think.

     Casilda uses a home pregnancy test, and with Isaura looking on, discovers that she is pregnant.

     Last scene has Arturo at Pilar's boutique. He has come to see Nora.

          Error in Summary  [USA, 8/4/04]   Author: Marietta (---)  Date:   08-05-04 15:48 PDT

          There is a small error in my translation that I need to fix because I think it will be important later on. Nora does not sell her dress, only other wedding items. I figure that while she and Pilar agree to keep offering the dress for sale, it will hang around to be worn at the eventual big wedding.

    

     Amarte es Mi Pecado: Adios Pilar... SUMMARY FOR THURSDAY AUG 5, 2004 Author: cyndire (---)  Date:   08-05-04 21:02 PDT

     Casilda tells Isaura she is the happiest woman in the world because of her night with Leonardo. Three weeks go by and Casilda takes a pregnancy test and surprised, tells Isaura she thinks she is pregnant. Isaura looks at the pregnancy test results and confirms.

     Arturo arrives at the boutique looking for Nora and finds Pilar. Pilar tells him Nora is not there and even if she were she wouldn’t talk to him. Arturo asks Pilar if they can talk….

     Casilda is rejoiced with the news of her pregnancy. Isaura tells her it’s all because of her help, and Casilda promises to be generous with Isaura.

     Arturo tells Pilar he loves Nora. Pilar says Nora also loves him, but she is too hurt for his betrayal. Arturo asks Pilar to help him find a way of making Nora agree to talk and listen to him. Pilar believes in Arturo’s sincerity and promises she will talk to Nora. She also tells Arturo that Nora has something very important that she hasn’t told him. Arturo asks what it is, but Pilar changes her mind and says she can’t tell him. Arturo insists, and Pilar is about to talk when Gisela arrives at the boutique to pick up some clothes.

     Casilda pays Isaura generously while she imagines how Leonardo will take the news about the baby. Casilda thinks about asking Nora to return to the house, but Isaura tells her it’s not a good idea because of Leonardo.

     At the boutique, Gisela flirts at Arturo. Arturo asks Pilar to please not forget about what they talked and leaves. Gisela tells Pilar that she had come to pick up the clothes before, but she found Nora trying to pay Evaristo in the only way she knows… by seducing him. Pilar defends Nora. Gisela reminds Pilar that Nora had to leave Patzcuaro because of the scandal with Heriberto and that she always finds a way of taking advantage of stupid men such as her husband (LOL)

     Luisa and Nora meet in the street. Nora asks her for Arturo. Luisa tells her she doesn’t know what happened to him after the police took him away, then realizes by the look in Nora’s face that she talked too much. So she tells Nora everything about the day when Arturo stayed all night by her window in the street and how she was reprimanded for giving him a cup of coffee, and that after that they had called the police and he was prohibited from approaching the house.

     Pilar tells Nora that Arturo came looking for her and he wants a chance to talk. She says he confided in her and promised him to talk to Nora about them and that is exactly what she is doing in that moment.

     Paulina tells Renata that the time is coming that she will not be able to hide her pregnancy any longer, and that she will be forced to talk to her dad and Rafael about it.

     Pilar tells Nora she and Arturo should talk, but Nora says no and please don’t tell anything about her pregnancy to Arturo. Pilar says Arturo made a mistake, but he regrets it. Nora says she could some day forgive him, but a treachery like that is impossible to forget. Betina and Nora go to Patzcuaro to get the bride ready for her wedding… the same bride that bought her wedding things. When Nora leaves, Pilar tells herself she will help Nora and the first thing she will do is liberate her from Evaristo Lopez Monfort. She arrives at Evaristo’s office and gives him the check for the remainder of Nora’s debt. Evaristo tells her off, saying this is between Nora and him and so she should keep her money. Pilar tells him that now she believes that what he wants is to get paid in a different way. Evaristo denies it. Pilar then tells him to take the check or she will reveal his real intentions to society. He takes the check and Pilar demands the "promissory" notes.

     Betina asks Nora how her wedding plans are going. The bride is surprised to know Nora is also getting married, but Nora then says the wedding is off. Betina asks the reason. Nora says there were some disagreements. Betina tells her she shouldn’t let this guy go because after all the scandals and problems she doesn’t have that much of a chance.

     Pilar is about to leave Evaristo’s when she sees Isaura arriving and decides to stay and see what she is up to. Evaristo tells Isaura he is not interested in Nora and least because she is pregnant. He tells Isaura to get lost and that he never wants to see her again. Isaura asks him to give her time and she’ll bring Nora to him in silver plate. Pilar hears all this hidden behind the door.

     At the wedding in Patzcuaro, the bride invites Nora to the ceremony. She accepts, that way she can visit the Virgin of Health (Virgen de la Salud). Betina sarcastically laughs at Nora’s devotion.

     At church Gisela and Betina gossip about Nora. Evaristo arrives. Nora remains in the back of the church and imagines that the wedding is hers with Arturo. Heartbroken, she leaves.

     Pilar confronts Isaura. Isaura denies everything, but Pilar says she listened to everything. Isaura says it’s her word against Pilar’s. Pilar tells Isaura she will make her pay for all she has done to Nora. Isaura gives her a killer look and saying “Excuse me” leaves.

     In Patzcuaro some guy in the street insults Nora and she slaps him on the face: Nobody will ever humiliate her again.

     Isaura plays with all the money she has “earned” while she thinks what she’s going to do about Pilar.

     Don Clemente asks Arturo how his international trips are going. Arturo says he is back at his old route and that he was to Morelia, but he couldn’t see Nora.

     Pilar forgets the “promissory” notes while she talks on the phone. Isaura sneaks in and steals them, and then she sets the boutique on fire.

     Leonardo returns from a business trip. Casilda waltzes down the stairs eager to tell Leonardo about the baby, when Leonardo looks at the newspaper to find out about the boutique: there was a fire and a woman has died. Gisela and Evaristo also comment about it and she tells him she hopes the dead woman is Nora, that way he’ll stop chasing her.

     Leonard finds Nora crying: the dead woman is Pilar. Isaura plans to get some money from Evaristo from the “promissory” notes.

     Casilda tells Isaura she is worried about Nora, what if she is who died. Isaura cries for Nora. Nora tells Leonardo why she was not in the boutique at the time of the tragedy.

     Leonardo offers his apartment to Nora. She accepts and Leo goes to get the car. Arturo arrives and tells her thank God she is safe; he was so worried about her. She asks him if she really matters to him, he says he loves her. She asks him to stop being a hypocrite and leaves with Leonardo.

     At Leonardo’s apartment, Nora tells him she doesn’t think it is a good idea to stay there. She also says she will never return to Casilda’s house because she doesn’t want to be a burden for anyone. Casilda finds out that Nora will stay at Leonardo’s and is worried that that situation is worse than having Nora live in her home. Isaura tells her it’s not so, and says she’ll help her with the problem, but she has to do exactly what she says.

     When they’re leaving the house, Arturo approaches them and asks Casilda to help him reconcile with Nora, Isaura bights back, Arturo ignores Isaura and asks Casilda to please think about it.

     Casilda visits Nora and cries. After asking how she is, she says that she knows her situation is tough but she has to ask her to get away from Leonardo or she will never be able to give her child the love of a real family. Nora is happy to know about Casilda’s pregnancy, and promises to get away.

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     Evaristo gives Gisela a necklace with precious stones. She declines it, but he insists and asks her to forgive him. She says ok, he thinks all women have their price.

     Leonardo arrives at the apartment with food for Nora, only to find a note she left behind. Gisela arrives too, and reads the note, where Nora asks him not to look for her any longer. Gisela and Leonardo have a discussion about it. Gisela swears she will be sure to make Nora’s life hell. Leonardo asks her to leave, while he wonders why Nora has left.

     Isaura takes Nora to a modest apartment, and Nora says it’s ok because she can’t afford anything better. Isaura reminds Nora she still owes the “promissory” notes to Evaristo. Nora shows Isaura a piece of her wedding gown: that’s all she has from the remains of the boutique.

     The reporter investigating Felix Palacios finds Dahlia in the street and asks for anything about him. She refuses to talk. He tells her he is a reporter and he will never reveal she helped him.

     Casilda finds out Nora left Leonardo’s place. Luisa listens while they secretly mention the place where she is now living.

     Arturo tells Paulina he will continue to fight for Nora’s love. Paulina replies she knows that what they had was not love and that she will be that happiest woman in the world when Nora forgives him. He says he’s sorry, but reminds her he’ll take responsibility on the baby. Paulina leaves and cries thinking how much she loves Arturo.

     Leonardo wonders where to find Nora. He asks Isaura and she says she won’t tell him. When she leaves, Luisa approaches him and tells him she’ll tell him because she also knows.

     Nora cries in the cemetery for Pilar. She leaves a rose in the tomb.

     Leonardo leaves the house in search of Nora. Arturo sees him and follows him.

     Isaura returns the “promissory” notes to Evaristo and he discovers she was who caused the fire.

     The episode ends with Leonardo finding Nora. She tries to push away, but then sees Arturo and kisses Leonardo….

     TOMORROW:

     Arturo sees Nora and Leonardo kissing…

     Casilda gives Leonardo the news about her pregnancy…

     Will Arturo run away??? What will be Leonardo's reaction???

     Don't miss it.....

 

Summary - Friday 8/6/04 (Might be a little long)  Author: Beatriz (---)  Date:   08-06-04 22:40 PDT

     Leonardo finds Nora and she tries to push him away, but she sees Arturo and kisses Leonardo while looking at Arturo. Arturo stops momentarily.

     Evaristo accuses Isaura of having provoked the fire that killed Pilar, but she denies it. Evaristo does not believe her and questions how she got the promissory notes that Nora had signed. Isaura lies and says that Pilar had given them to her to give to Nora, but yet again Evaristo challenges her by saying “Why would she give them to you if Nora lives with her?” She doesn’t offer anymore explanations and he threatens to call the police and turn her in. He wonders if she has covered her tracks well as he begins to dial. She walks over and hangs up the phone and claims that she is innocent. She says that she is demonstrating her friendship to him by returning the promissory notes to him so that he can continue to harass Nora. He agrees not to turn her in and tells her that once he has Nora, she will have a lot of money.

     Leonardo and Nora stop kissing and turn around as Arturo approaches them. Arturo asks Nora, “Why?” and she yells at him that she doesn’t have to give him any explanations because he chose his path and now she can chose her own. He pleads with her to give him a chance to explain, but she refuses and walks away. Arturo attempts to talk to Leonardo, but he just shrugs and goes after Nora. Arturo receives a phone call from work telling him that the plane is ready to leave.

     Paulina struggles to concentrate at work and Renata reminds her that she needs to tell her family about her pregnancy soon. Paulina agrees, but is finding it difficult especially since Arturo is going to marry Nora.

     Leonardo walks into Nora’s small drab room and tells her that she can’t stay there to please return to his apartment. She refuses and angrily tells him to leave her alone and Leonardo leaves.

     Later that night, Nora is unable to sleep and thinks about the fact that Leonardo is a good person, but that she must keep her distance from him because she promised Casilda.

     Paulina thinks about the time when Arturo was telling her how much he loves Nora and that he will never love Paulina because Nora is the love of his life.

     Diane asks Paulina for an article that is due, but Paulina somehow lost it.

     Leonardo returns home and Casilda asks him if he found Nora and if she’ll be returning to the house. He confirms that she will not be returning and starts to walk upstairs when Casilda tells him that she is pregnant. Leonardo stops at the top of the stairs and looks at her in disbelief and shock and then continues upstairs without saying a word. Casilda complains to Isaura about Leonardo’s reaction and Isaura tells her to be patient, that he is probably upset because Nora rejected him.

     Paulina cannot find the article and has to retype it; Diane tells her to redo it quickly because she has a deadline.

     Leonardo thinks about Casilda’s pregnancy as he paces in his room.

     Back in Mexico City, Arturo and Don Clemente look at a picture of Arturo with his parents as a child and comment on the immense responsibility of having children. Arturo reassures his grandfather that he will be a good parent. He then tells Don Clemente that he saw Nora kissing Leonardo and that is was the same trick she had used earlier in front of Diego to make him jealous. He realizes that she is just trying to push him away, but he will not give up on their love.

     Luisa takes food to Nora and tells her that she needs to take care of herself for her baby’s sake. Luisa asks her if she had been able to see Arturo and to please forgive him because he loves her. Nora tells her about his infidelity and asks her if she would forgive him.

     Paulina tells Roberto that she has to submit her article and he offers to take it for her and she accepts. She also asks him for a favor, that if he were to see Juan Carlos to tell him that she will be in Morelia regarding a pending issue she has.

     Casilda cries in her room because she thinks that Leonardo doesn’t love her or the baby she’s expecting. Leonardo approaches the doorway and tells her that he wasn’t expecting this news, but that he will be there to support her and the baby. Casilda happily tries to hug him, however he pushes her away and reaffirms that he doesn’t love her and that he’s never lied to her about it. He reassures her that he will be a good father and she says that at least now with her baby she will have a reason to live.

     Nora still can’t sleep and thinks about finding a job and assures her baby that they will be ok. She shivers from the cold.

     The following day, Leonardo goes downstairs for breakfast, but can’t seem to eat. Isaura asks him if it’s because of the baby, but he says it’s because he is worried about Nora. He explains that he wants to help her and that she will not accept anything from him. Isaura feigns concern, but her eyes light up when he mentions money. She says that she would like to help but does not think that Nora will accept any money from him or any other man because of how they have made her suffer. Leonardo sadly contemplates the situation and asks if Isaura would give her the money without her knowing who sent it. Isaura ‘reluctantly’ agrees to get the money to Nora.

     Nora goes on an interview for a secretarial position, but the interviewer says that she is not qualified for the job. However, he tells her that she may be better qualified for the receptionist job if she would dress better. Nora agrees that she will dress better, he then tells her the job has been filled, but insinuates that if she’d be willing to sleep with him, he can make sure that the job would be hers. She slaps him and leaves.

     Paulina tells Covadonga that she is going to Morelia to finally tell her family about her situation and she supports her.

     Roberto and Jose Jorge ask Dalia questions about Felix Palacios in the park.

     Covadonga tells Arturo that Paulina has gone to Morelia to tell her family the news. He tells her that he should have gone with her and Don Clemente agrees. They both decide to go to Morelia right away.

     Roberto and Jose Jorge ask Dalia for a picture of Felix Palacios.

     Rafael and Silverio are discussing Paulina at home when she walks through the door and tells them that she needs to tell them something and they sit down in the living room.

     Nora looks for work in a factory, but the supervisor tells her that she would not be any good due to lack of experience. Nora pleads with the supervisor.

     Paulina begins telling her family about her trip to Miami, that she was nearly raped and how Arturo saved her. Just then, Arturo and Don Clemente walk into the house and Arturo tells Paulina’s family that they are there to formally ask for Paulina’s hand in marriage. Paulina is shocked and speechless as she and Arturo exchange glances. Silverio says that he had no idea they were even dating, but said that he was the type of man he wanted for Paulina. Don Clemente confirms his surprise as well and that the relationship just happened quickly. Arturo explains to Silverio and Rafael how after the trip to Miami, they just started to see each other differently.

     Nora insists and finally convinces the supervisor to give her an opportunity. She begins to work immediately.

     Isaura shuffles a deck of cards and Casilda asks her if she knows how to ‘read’ cards. Isaura tells her that she is new to it, but she’ll try.

     Arturo tells Paulina, Silverio, and Rafael that the wedding will be the following day. All of them are surprised, but Arturo explains that since Paulina is the woman for him and the fact that he is away so often, they would like to get married immediately. Silverio gives his approval happily, however Rafael has some objections but also gives his approval. Arturo and Paulina explain that it will only be a civil ceremony, not religious for the time being. They all toast for their happiness.

     Isaura ‘reads’ the cards to Casilda and says that she sees a woman that will hinder the future of her baby. Casilda automatically thinks it is Nora, but Isaura tells her that she’s a beautiful blonde…..it’s Gisela! She explains how it could only be Gisela because she fits the description. Casilda is horrified.

     Roberto and Jose Jorge meet with Juan Carlos regarding their progress on the investigation on Felix Palacios. They explain how they have met with Dalia and that she has a picture of him. Juan Carlos tells them they have to have solid proof before printing anything and reminds them to proceed cautiously. As Roberto leaves his office, Juan Carlos asks him about Paulina’s trip to Morelia and he reassures him that there isn’t any type of emergency.

     Arturo and Paulina talk at a nearby park about what Arturo just did for her. She asks him why he asked for her hand in marriage without even asking her first. He said that he would support her and this is how he was going to do it. She asks about Nora and he confirms that he loves her and will always continue to do so. She says that she understands and suggests that he write her a letter explaining everything to her. He isn’t sure about it. She tells him that if he can work things out with Nora, they will cancel their wedding. He tells her that he will only marry her until she has the baby and then they will get a divorce. This way she will not be alone during her pregnancy. She explains that she doesn’t want to tie him to her by going through with a religious ceremony. She then looks down and reaches her hand to place it on his, but pulls her hand back and looks at him with watery eyes.

     Don Clemente calls the boarding house and explains the situation to them.

     Arturo writes a letter to Nora explaining what happened with Paulina, asks her for forgiveness and tells her how much he loves her.

     Nora works at the factory as the supervisor goes up to her and yells at her to work faster.

     Luisa is going into the house when Arturo approaches her and asks for her help. Luisa is reluctant after Nora explained the situation to her, but she accepts the letter and agrees to give it to Nora.

     Isaura takes Nora food and Nora tells her that she has been thinking about Arturo. Isaura gets annoyed and tells her to forget about him. Nora feels that maybe she’s been too proud, how he continues to insist that he doesn’t love Paulina and how much he loves her. Isaura tells her that Arturo only wants her as a lover and nothing more. Nora doesn’t believe her and says that she will look for him the next day because she thinks they may still have a chance.

     The people in the boarding house discuss the upcoming wedding between Arturo and Paulina and pregnancy in disbelief and agree to go to Morelia to support Arturo.

     Isaura walks in on Luisa and the butler as they discuss Arturo’s letter. Isaura agrees that Luisa should give it to Nora, but Luisa tells her that it will have to be much later because she has too many chores. Isaura tells her that she will more than happy to take the letter to Nora. Luisa gives the letter to Isaura.

     Isaura reads the letter and vows that Arturo and Nora will never be together. She also decides to find Silverio and tell him about his daughter’s pregnancy.

     Don Clemente tells Arturo that everyone from the boarding house came to Morelia for his wedding because they are like his family.

     Isaura gives Luisa a ‘letter from Nora’ to give to Arturo and tells her to deliver it to him right away at his hotel.

     Nora at work is told to work faster and although they don’t pay overtime, the supervisor agrees to let her work two shifts.

     Isaura goes to find Silverio and runs into him and discovers that Paulina and Arturo will get married that same day at the hotel.

     Luisa gives Arturo Nora’s letter and when he opens it, he finds his letter to her ripped to pieces. Covadonga and Don Clemente tell him the message is clear as he runs out of the room.

     Arturo goes to find Nora at Casilda’s house and finds Isaura. She tells him that Nora does not want to see him ever again and that she has forgotten about him. He insists that he loves her and wants to work things out with her. She makes fun of him and his claims of love. She also asks him about his wedding later that day and he tells her that he will cancel it if Nora will talk to him. She tells him to leave and says that Nora doesn’t want him.

     Paulina goes downstairs in her wedding dress and her family is happy for her. They wish her well.

     Casilda thinks about Gisela and Leonardo.

     Isaura goes to Nora’s job and insists that she accompany her to the hotel to run an errand for Casilda and Leonardo. She also tells her that maybe she will run into Arturo while she’s there. That convinces Nora to go with her.

     Gisela visits Leonardo at his office and begins to kiss him when Casilda walks in and pulls her away from Leonardo. She yells at her for getting near her husband.

     Isaura and Nora make their way through the hotel lobby and Isaura takes her right outside of the ballroom where Arturo and Paulina’s wedding is taking place. Nora sees them exchange vows and a kiss. She is in absolute shock and disbelief, while Isaura smiles evilly.

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USA, 8/9 - 13/04

 

      Telenovela-World - ENGLISH Summary 08/09 MONDAY NIGHT Author: Jardinera654 (---) Date:   08-10-04 14:42 PDT

      Isaura urges Nora to accompany her to Hotel Virreinal to do errands for Casilda and Leonardo. Nora consents because wants to finally listen to Arturo. She recalls that Arturo always stays in this hotel. The two women go the hotel and walk through it. Isaura stops in front of a banquet room. The door to this one is open and inside Nora can see everything. Inside Arturo and Paulina are getting married! She watches the wedding and them kissing when they are finally husband and wife. She barely can believe it! –Casilda al same time arrives at the open door of Leonardo office. Her husband and Gisela are kissing. She pushes them apart and shouts, “You get out of here and stay away from my husband.” She shouts at Gisela, ”How long have you been involved? Gisela retorts loudly: “a long time!” Casilda answers,” You? The model wife? Morelia’s great society lady?” Casilda then tells her that she is expecting Leonardo’s baby. Gisela is annoyed, turns for the door, and leaves the office in a huff. --Isaura tries to convince Nora that Arturo had only wanted to make fun of her. Arturo married Paulina for love and he wanted Nora as a lover. Nora is not sure that Isaura is right. She says to herself that this just cannot be happening because Paulina never meant anything to him. Otherwise, what reason had he sought her out and tried to explain things to her so many times? Nora begins to enter the room to try to get Arturo to clarify things. Isaura though stops her from interrupting the wedding and being humiliated again. The two leave together and return to Nora’s workplace. After leaving Nora there, Isaura laughs thinking, “Good! “Now Nora and Arturo never will marry and that’s the end of it!”

      Ana Marie overhears Julián and Renata speaking about her; how he worries about her. Ana Maria, begins to wonder if Julián is interested in her. On the telephone, Renata promises her father that she will try to lend support to Diego and Mirta so they can handle things. –Arturo and Paulina are discussing during the reception how Nora reacted to the letter he wrote her. He tells her how Nora tore up the letter and “didn’t leave any doubt that she wants nothing more to do with him.” --Nora is distracted and distraught and she pricks her finger and stains the fabric she’s sewing with blood. –During their reception, Paulina tells Arturo that she’s to blame and feels very badly for all that has happened. He answers that he doesn’t blame her for anything. Then Rafa comes for them to introduce Claudia as his girlfriend. Paulina is surprised. She’s irked and explains all about Claudia to Arturo during their time at the university. –At Casilda’s, Leonardo comes to discuss and clarify things but she cannot face Leonardo right then. So he leaves her alone. –Outside the “Blue Fly Club” Diana’s taxi breaks down. She gets out of the taxi and sees José Jorge. He offers to accompany her till she gets another taxi, but she refuses. –Renata invites to Diego to have dinner but she feels should emphasize again she does not want more than to be a very good friend. This hurts him a lot, but he hides it from her. –After the wedding Arturo and Paulina go up to their room. They share their room but not their bed. Arturo sleeps on the sofa and she sleeps in the bed alone. He thinks about Nora, and Paulina thinks about him, and how she much loves him. She decides that tomorrow she’ll seek out Nora and try to clarify the things. –Dalia promises José to find him a photo of Félix Palacios soon. She mentions that in the photo is another person. –Nora returns to her rotten little room and thinks about her bad luck and of her life now.

      The following day Casilda is going to visit Evaristo and to tell him all about Gisela. Isaura tries to stop Casilda from going there. At the same moment Gisela arrives at the door. They shout at each other. Gisela says that Casilda doesn’t want another scandal which might harm Leonardo somehow. If not, she warns her that Evaristo is a man to be reckoned with! Casilda should think about their son and how the baby could be left without a father. After threatening Casilda with this, Gisela goes off. –Nora’s manager shouts that now Nora must pay damages before being given an additional shift. She decides that she will have to sell her mother’s sewing machine to get sufficient money to repay the company. So Nora comes to ask Casilda to let her take the sewing machine. Despite the fact her aunt left it to her in the will, Casilda refuses to give it to her. Besides, she adds, Nora is not permitted inside the house ever, and it’s because Nora is the same threat as Gisela: Leonardo won’t love her because of Nora and therefore she shouts, “Leave and don’t come back again ever!” At the same moment Paulina arrives and enters the room. She overhears this last bit. Casilda greets Paulina and leaves the room. Nora turns and sees Paulina there. Paulina tries to talk with Nora, but Nora won’t let her speak. Nora gets mad and tells Paulina that there’s nothing she could possibly say of any interest to her and goes. Isaura enters the room and suggests to Paulina that she has heard something very delicate between Casilda and Nora concerning Leonardo, the husband of Casilda. She insinuates that there is something between Leonardo and Nora. Therefore, Paulina leaves beginning to think that Nora is not what she pretends to be.

      During the supper at Diego’s, he, Renata, and Mirta talk about Nora. Diego recalls how he saw Nora and Leonardo kissing that day. He believes that Arturo does not need women like Nora. –Casilda talks to herself as Alejandra again. She says that ugly people do not bear the blame for being ugly. –Diana thinks that she prefers to not have children rather than allowing them to end up in the street as those she’s watching were. –Ana Marie and Julián talk and begin to discuss Cathy. She asks him if he thinks about remaking his life with another woman. He answers that he doesn’t really know. —In the kitchen at Casilda’s Isaura enters and sits down at the table with the servants. She pretends that she is sad about what happened recently to Nora. She lies about the letter and about how she and Nora accidentally saw Arturo and the other woman, the one he got pregnant, getting married. Luisa is really upset at hearing this. They agree to tell Arturo nothing ever about Nora again. –In Leonardo’s office Isaura and he talk. He says tha he had preferred that Casilda not know anything of Gisela. But, then it asks Isaura if she knew any about Nora. She pretends to be sad about what has happened to her. She recounts to him the wedding to Paulina. Leonardo is furious and answers that Arturo will have to confront him for hurting Nora this way. Then he gives Isaura money for Nora. --Paulina warns Rafa about Claudia and that she is a rotten person. –Nora collects some pieces of old fabric and begins to sew clothes for the baby. Isaura visits Nora and leaves only a few dollars out of all that huge quantity Leonardo generously had given her for Nora. Isaura pretends that there isn’t any more to give her.

      Leonardo explains to Casilda that with Gisela it’s not more than passion and he has never loved her as–. But in that moment they both realize that he has slipped up. Casilda finishes with, "as Nora?" and Leonardo answers, "Yes, as Nora." Casilda is resigned to the fact that Leonardo will not love her ever and that she will be happy to be the mother of his son. –Paulina tells Renata about the quickie wedding and it was only to avoid shaming her family; she adds that Arturo does not realize that she loves him, and that he still loves Nora. –Diana gets mad with the news of the wedding from Micaela and Covadonga. She mocks the little hypocrite that trapped Arturo so easily by jumping in his bed. –Paulina tells Renata what happened before at Casilda and Leonardo’s and all she heard about Nora and Leonardo. They then erroneously believe that now Nora and Leonardo are lovers and that Nora never loved Arturo at all. So, Renata encourages Paulina to fight for his love. It seems Paulina has the right to do this now. Paulina is irked and asks her: "How do I? How?" --Rafa confronts Claudia with the truth and accuses her of messing with him only to get even with Paulina. –Nora is sewing baby clothes. She admits to herself that in spite of all and of her deceits she will love Arturo all of her life. –Claudia answers to Rafa that Paulina lied him. Rafa thinks that he’s not sure if Claudia has lied to him or not. –Covadonga and Pascuala chat together when Cova discovers the old envelope from her nephew and the notices the letter’s missing. She shouts at Pascuala: “Where is the letter?" Nora is sewing the clothes for the baby when her manager sees her. She has to admit that she is pregnant. The manager is upset and fires Nora for not telling her anything before beginning to work there. – Rafa is in Mexico on business. Paulina comes to see her brother and finds Claudia. Paulina demands why Claudia continues with this farce. Claudia answers that Paulina shouldn’t be pointing fingers at her. Particularly since her wedding was very sudden and --, but before Claudia can finish speaking, Paulina blurts out that the wedding was quick because she was pregnant. Rafa is by chance standing behind his sister and hears all of this. He shouts at her and asks if in fact she is pregnant.

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      Telenovela-World - Summary Aug 10 Author: bettyboop72779 (---) Date:   08-11-04 12:58 PDT

      Nora is at work and is sewing clothes for her baby and the boss see her and asks her if she is pregnant and then fires her. Nora leaves the hotel she is staying at I missed the part where it told where she was going but Isuara had something to do with it.

      Paulina and Artuto are married and Arturo decides that they need to rent a apartment so the go to look at one and it is close to his grandpan so they take it and move in.

      Leonardo is questioning Isuara about Nora's whereabouts but she says she can betray Nora's request no to tell him where she is at so he gives her money for Nora but she pocket's it.

      Paulina is tell her brother that his girlfriend Claudia is just playing games with him he doesn't belive her. Paulina goes to see Claudia and tell her that she if she heard she was pregnant that is is true and her brother walks in and over hears.

      Diana marries the old rich man at their wedding she walks out and says that she has to go to work but they did marry he tell her that he cleaned out a room for her at his apartment but she refuse to move in with him saying that there will never be anything between them.

      Nora is trying to steal and apple and the owner of the booth catches her and just the the father walks up and over hears they go back to the church and he convinces her that she needs tell the father of her child the she is pregnant.

      Some time passes and you see Paulina's belly is growing and Nora's too Paulina has the baby's room fixed and is ready it is beautiful Reynata comes to see her and ask if she and Arturo still sleep in sepertae rooms and she tell her that they still do and she loves Arturo.

      At the end Nora goes to Arturo's grandfathers house and asks to see him Diana open the door and ask her did she not know that he married Paulina and she says yes but that she need to tell him that the baby she is carrying is his.

     

      Telenovela-World: Summary 8/11/04 Author: Marietta (---) Date:   08-11-04 20:06 PDT

      Nora arrives in Mexico at the pension of Don Clemente and meets Diana. Nora reveals that she is pregnant and wants to see Arturo to tell him. Diana decides to take her to the apartment after finding a set of keys. Diana says to herself that this is her opportunity for revenge.

      Isaura goes to the church in Morelia and is told by the attendant that the padre has gone to Mexico with Nora. Isaura gets directions to the convent where they are staying. She is determined that Nora not see Arturo.

      Renata and Paulina are in Paulina and Arturo's apartment waiting for Don Silverio to visit. Paulina has put out the photo of Arturo and her kissing so that Don Silverio won't suspect that there is no love in the marriage. Paulina says that Arturo is always attentive to her but at the same time he's cold. Silverio arrives and takes Paulina and Renata out to eat.

      Arturo and Pepe Luis (the student from the pension) are at a place where children of the street can come. The priest talks about the problem of parental indifference. He also tells Arturo to remember that every child is a gift from God. (He says further that people should not give food and money to children of the street because it reinforces their wish to stay in the street. People should give money to the institutions trying to get kids off the streets. Street children must be the special social cause of this novela.)

      Diana takes Nora to the apartment and they enter. The scenes inside the apartment are very painful as Nora sees first the photo that's out of Paulina and Arturo kissing. Then she sees the beautiful nursery as Diana tells her that Arturo and Paulina are happy and that Nora must face the fact that Arturo does not love her. Nora weeps bitter tears. She resolves that she wants to have nothing more to do with Arturo. Nora runs out on the street where Pascuala sees her.

      Renata and Paulina drop Silverio off. Isaura arrives and reminds Silverio that they've met. She proceeds to tell Silverio that her seductress step-daughter wants to ruin Paulina's and Arturo's lives by telling Arturo that he is the father of the baby she is expecting. (Is Isaura evil or what???) Silverio looks amazed, in his otherworldly way, that this could be happening. He later tells Paulina who guesses immediately that the woman is Nora. He tells her that the real father of the baby is Leonardo. Paulina looks very scared.

      Alfredo is upset because his record is not selling and he's afraid the company will withdraw it from the market. Gertrudis has an idea. She finds a group of school girls and has Alfredo (dressed to look a bit like Elvis) emerge in their midst while she gives away CDs. She pushes the girls to have him sign the CDs. He expresses gratitude for her constant attention and help.

      Arturo and Pepe Luis leave the institution that helps children of the street and set off in different directions. Pepe Luis recognizes Nora on the street and sees that she is pregnant. He reports to Arturo, who is then determined to find her.

      Nora is resting in the convent. Paulina comes to confront Nora. She claims that Arturo has sent her to say that they are very happy and that Nora should leave them alone. Paulina leaves. The scene closes with Nora on one side of the door, looking devastated while Paulina looks very scared on the other side.

      Gisela and her buddies are playing cards. Betina mentions that she wants to sell her apartment. The game ends and Betina says that inasmuch as she is blackmailing Gisela regarding her relationship with Leonardo, there is no reason for her to pay up what she owes Gisela from the game. Gisela says that if Betina follows through with threats she will lose her social standing. Betina needs Gisela and she must pay her gambling debts.

      Gertrudis completes the sale of her hotel to Evaristo. Evaristo then pays Heriberto a commission for convincing Gertrudis to sell to him. They exchange comments on Nora's sad plight.

      Isaura arrives at the convent and is pleased to hear that Nora has not met with Arturo. She gives Nora her usual line about how Nora never learns. Nora says she will never recover from the harm and pain that Arturo's deception has inflicted on her.

      Arturo tells Don Clemente that Nora is pregnant and that he arrived at the convent after Nora has returned to Morelia. He resolves to go to Morelia to find her. He tells Paulina that he is going to Morelia. She tells him that Nora is trying to deceive him about the pregnancy -- Leo is the father. Arturo says he needs to find out the truth for himself.

      Gisela arrives at Leo's office and asks the receptionist to give Leonardo a message which says that she wants to renew the affair and will meet him at their usual place. Shortly thereafter Leonardo arrives and finds Betina who wants him to sell her apartment. He looks at the message from Gisela and then throws it in the trash. Betina visits with him and gives him the key. She contrives to get the message out of the trash and keeps it to use against Gisela.

      Alfredo and Gertrudis are walking arm-in-arm on the street, gloating over the episode with the school girls. They see Nora and say hateful things about how horrible she looks and how there is indeed justice, as Nora is now in the street and Alfredo is a budding pop star (go figure on that one!)

      Arturo arrives in Morelia. He runs into Alfredo (who shakes at the sight of Arturo) and Gertrudis who tell him where they saw Nora. He learns from the attendant at a nearby hotel that Nora is staying there but is not available at the moment. Isaura observes this and concocts a plan. Isaura pays off the attendant to steer Arturto in another direction.

      Isaura arrives at Leonardo's shortly after Casilda does. Isaura is going to take Casilda to the doctor. Both hear from Betina that her apartment is vacant and for sale. Isaura takes Leonardo aside to ask if Nora can be hidden in the apartment so that Arturo won't find her. Leonardo agrees.

      Gisela waits for Leonardo. When he doesn't arrive, she calls him at home. Casilda answers and recognizes her voice. Gisela is unfazed, even as Casilda yells at her. She decides that Gisela and Leo must be meeting at Betina's empty apartment.

      Arturo has his cab follow Isaura in her little red Beetle to the empty apartment where Nora is (a smart move from our hero at last!) Isaura is bringing Nora some food. She arrives first. Then Arturo comes to the door. Nora answers. Arturo says, "So you are pregnant. And who is the father?" Leonardo is standing outside the open door. He answers that he is the father. Casilda is in the hallway. She hears this. In the previews it appears that Nora will lie to Arturo in confirming that Leonardo is the father.

     

      Telenovela-World: Bittersweet Revenge: Amarte es Mi Pecado... SUMMARY THURSDAY 8/12/2004 Author: cyndire (---) Date:   08-12-04 21:16 PDT

      Arturo follows Isaura in a Taxicab. In Mexico City, Renata tells Paulina to stop tormenting herself about what Arturo will do in Morelia. Paulina says as much as she tries she can’t help it, what if Nora convinces him once more with her lies?

      Isaura tells Nora she brought some food and she’ll serve it, and to be alert as someone will bring some sodas. The door rings and Isaura thinks it is the person bringing the drinks. Nora opens, it is Arturo, who looks at her and says “Then it is real, you are pregnant”. Nora turns away; he follows and asks who the father is. Leonardo arrives at that moment and says the baby is his. Arturo asks Nora if this is true. She looks puzzled, and doubts for a moment, but then says yes, the baby is Leonardo’s. She asks Leonardo to please leave her and Arturo alone so they can speak.

      Arturo: I can’t believe it…

      Nora: Why not, you did the same to me…. You only wanted me as your lover…

      Arturo: What about our love???

      Nora: Our love????

      Arturo: Yes Nora, our love.. that is why I have been looking for you despite everything that has happened… I still love you… that is why I need to clarify many things with you.

      Nora spontaneously starts sobbing… her hands covering her face in grief.

      Nora: Arturo… I love you, you don’t know how much I love you and need you… if you could just imagine the terrible days I have been through since we ended our relationship my love… it has been a nightmare since then. If it weren’t for this baby I am expecting I don’t know what I would’ve done with my life, truly, I don’t know…

      Arturo: Nora, I love you….

      Nora then starts laughing cynically…. with a smirk on her face… Arturo looks at her, surprised by the change.

      Nora:: How easy it is to fool a man…. Arturo, Never believe in the tears of a woman…. Leonardo put me in this apartment. Here, I live with luxury and without needs. Leonardo pays the most minimal of my desires. At last, I have the life I always wanted.

Arturo: So.. you never loved me….

Nora, looking into his eyes: Never, go away, don’t ever come looking for me again, because besides Arturo, I am very happy, the same as you.

      Arturo walks to the door and looking back at Nora says: Good Bye.. and leaves.

      Torn, Nora stays behind and starts sobbing uncontrollably while she says to herself “Arturo, my love”. Isaura consoles her and tells her she did the right thing. Nora tells her he told her he still loves him and that it hurt her so deep to lie to him because she still loves him.

      Leonardo arrives and asks her if she is OK. He tells her she can stay in Betina’s apartment while it is sold. Nora surprised to learn the apartment is Betina’s, thanks Leonardo. As soon as he’s gone, Isaura starts apologizing to Nora for not telling her the apartment is Betina’s. Nora tells Isaura they are leaving. Isaura says it is too late, that tomorrow she’ll find another place for her.

      Paulina wonders how things went for Arturo, what if he and Nora reconciled and he leaves her? What will she do without him?

      Arturo cries for Nora, heartbroken at "their place” by the fountain. He decides he will do everything to tear her out of his heart and never come back looking for her again.

      A furious Casilda tells Isaura she overheard the conversation where Leonardo said Nora’s baby is his. Isaura tells her to calm down, and to not even thing of recriminating Leonardo about it, and to leave everything to her.

      Leonardo arrives at Betina’s apartment and finds Isaura waiting to return the keys. He wants to know where she went but she tells him he should go take care of his wife and baby and that she will take care of Nora. Leonardo gives Isaura more money, then tells her he will open a bank account in her name where he will deposit monthly and clarifies that the money is for Nora.

      Paulina asks Arturo how things went. He tells her she was right, “ Nora cheated me all this time and I am sorry I made such a mistake. I don’t want to ever hear her name. The Nora I thought I knew has died”. Arturo needs to be alone. Paulina leaves.

      Isaura extracts the letters from Alejandra’s love affair with Jacobo. She starts reading them…

      Arturo talks to Abuelo about what happened in Morelia. Abuelo says it was for the better, but Arturo confesses he still loves Nora, and that after that, it will be hard for him to believe in love again.

      Casilda catches Isaura reading the letters. She reads and recognizes Alejandra’s handwriting. Isaura tells her that the old house cook had them and that when Alejandra fired her she took them with her, but that she came back and wanted to sell them to Casilda. Casilda tells Isaura she’ll read the letters and decide.

      Paulina tells Renata that Arturo is very disappointed from Nora. Renata tells her this is the opportunity she was waiting for to conquer Arturo’s heart.

      Paulina decides to resign from the Orellana Organization. She tells Juan Carlos she can’t live knowing that he still has hope she will accept him. Juan Carlos tells her she shouldn’t, and then offers her to telecommute, if it is better for her, as long as she accepts to continue working for him.

      Casilda wonders who Alejandra’s love interest was. She remembers Joaquin Arcadio and wonders if he is her dad.

      Joaquin Arcadio visits Felipe and talks to him while nobody is home, and before Felipe, he acknowledges him as his son. Felipe thinks: why did he come, he never wanted to recognize him as his son before.

      Casilda decides to “buy” the letters. Isaura tells her that with the money she’ll take care of it all, as the saying says, “with money the dog dances”.

      Nora arrives at a pigsty, an old, dirty apartment with dripping faucets that Isaura found for her. Nora asks Isaura to please ask Casilda to give her the sewing machine. Isaura promises her she will find some sewing work for her. Nora thanks Isaura for all her help.

      Isaura gives Casilda the letters from Alejandra. Casilda notices that they are love letters and thinks that maybe in one of them she will find out who her father is. Isaura says maybe he was married.

      Casilda discovers from the letters that Alejandra had an affair with Jacobo Guzman, that she is his child, and that Nora is her sister.

      Silverio finds Isaura and Nora in the street. Silverio calls Isaura. Isaura pretends she doesn’t know him. He insults Nora and tells her she is who is trying to destroy Paulina’s marriage by making Arturo believe her baby is his, but he knows it is Leonardo’s. Nora asks Silverio to tell her who said that. Isaura looks nervous, but then dares Silverio to tell. Silverio says he can’t say who. Betina overhears all this conversation and believes it.

      Casilda is surprised to know Nora is her sister and thinks that the story is repeating itself. Just as Alejandra and Nora’s mother, Nora is having a baby from the husband of her own sister. She asks Isaura if Nora knows the truth, and if not, to not tell her.

      Juan Carlos asks Sergio to continue Jose Jorge’s investigations, just to make sure that is assassination did not have another motive. Sergio is nervous.

      Betina arrives at Nora’s home. She tells her she knows she is in need and she will bring her some clothes to fix and leaves. Later, while playing cards, Betina shows her friends a very costly shawl and tells them it needs fixing and she will take it to Nora. She then proceeds to tell them that Nora is expecting a baby and that Leonardo is the father. Gisela listens in silence, but Betina then asks why she remains so quiet. After the rest leave, Gisela asks Betina why she has made all that up, but Betina says it is true.

      Felipe’s family finds out about the visit of the mysterious man. Damiana describes him and Felipe’s wife recognizes him as Joaquin Arcadio. Julian says he will investigate.

      Isaura talks to Evaristo and asks if he is still interested in Nora. He says he is not. Isaura then says if he has forgotten Nora still owes him money. Evaristo tells her she knows perfectly well that Pilar payed him before she died. Isaura reminds him he still has the promissory notes that she gave him.

      Betina takes the shawl to Nora for repair. She then gives Nora the note Gisela left Leonardo and tells her she should use it to blackmail Gisela. Nora refuses to consider it, but Betina asks her to keep it just in case she ever needs it.

      Gisela shouts at Leonardo for leaving her waiting for him. He says he simply didn’t want to see her. She says of course now that Nora is having his baby he doesn’t want to know anything about her. Leonardo says it is none of her business. Gisela then slaps him, and swears revenge against him and Nora.

      Paulina, Renata and the others admire the cover of the new issue of Prisma magazine, where Jessica Maldonado appears as the cover model. Jessica arrives and Juan Carlos asks her out for dinner. Paulina wishes Juan Carlos happiness as he leaves with Jessica.

      Arturo decides to keep the shattered letter he wrote to Nora as a reminder: every time he feels the impulse of going after her, it will remind him of how insignificant he was for Nora.

      Felipe’s wife arrives at Joaquin Arcadio’s house. She wants to know why he visited Felipe and left without leaving his name.

      Arturo asks Paulina how she’s been feeling. She says ok, just a bit of cravings. He asks her what kind of cravings, and she tells him she craves bread from Manolo’s bakery. Arturo goes to get some.

      In Morelia, the police come to Nora’s apartment and tell her they have come to claim immediate payment of the debt she owes Evaristo.

      Paulina eats the bread Arturo brought. Arturo says he has to leave. She says OK. Arturo finds the picture of the wedding. Paulina says she put it out so her father could see it. Arturo says it is OK and walks towards the door, but Paulina then tells him she has something to say. She says she knows he has always been an honest man and that now she wants to be honest. She tells him she wants him to know that… she loves him with all her soul.

      Tomorrow’s previews:

      - Nora makes Arturo believe that her child is Leonardo’s.

      - Paulina takes advantage of this and confesses her love to Arturo.

      - Casilda comes to Nora’s and slaps her and tells her she knows about the baby.

     

      Telenovela-World:  Summary - Friday 8/13/04 Author: Beatriz (---) Date:   08-14-04 07:46 PDT

      The officers enter Nora’s room and ask her to pay her debt to Evaristo or they will have to arrest her.

      Paulina tells Arturo that she loves him and he quickly refers back to the night in Miami when she took the initiative between them; Paulina denies it. Arturo looks upset and tells her that he doesn’t know what to think and leaves.

      Nora tells the officers that she doesn’t have any money to pay with and they take Betina’s shawl as collateral.

      Joaquin tells Ana Maria about Felipe’s “parents”. He explains that Felipe’s father didn’t marry his mother because she was indigenous. Ana Maria is surprised to learn of this news. Joaquin asks her for permission to continue visiting Felipe and she agrees.

      The officer gives Gisela Betina’s shawl and explains how he scared Nora. He tells Gisela that he will be available if she needs any further assistance. Gisela gloats over her victory.

      Isaura and Nora discuss what happened. Isaura claims that she doesn’t have any money to help her with and Nora worries about her situation.

      Ana Maria tells Julian that she doesn’t believe everything Joaquin told her and he assures her that he will investigate further. They hug as Kathy walks in. When Ana Maria leaves the room she feels jealousy.

      Isaura goes to see Evaristo, but he denies that he sent anyone to collect the money from Nora. They both wonder who sent them.

      Pepe Luis asks Arturo how he is doing, since he’s been quiet lately. Some kids at the halfway house fight.

      Isaura tells Nora that Evaristo did not send the officers, as Nora continues to think about how she will pay him the money. Isaura tells Nora that she had some tablecloths for her to work on, but she cannot leave them there. Nora pleads with her to leave them, because she desperately needs the money for food. Isaura declines.

      Arturo tells Clemente what Paulina confessed to him earlier and how he wonders if she planned everything between them. Clemente assures Arturo that Paulina is a good girl and would never do such a thing. Arturo is not at ease and tells Clemente that he will ask Paulina for a divorce as soon as the baby is born.

      Evaristo realizes that Gisela was the one who sent the officers to collect the money from Nora. He threatens her with divorce if she continues to meddle in his business.

      Arturo returns home and tells Paulina that