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The narrator interrupts the main story with a separate incident. It shows another side of Domingos Botelho. Domingos was a former corregedor of Viseu, a senior magistrate. Manoel Botelho, Simão's elder brother, studied mathematics in Coimbra. He fled to Spain with the wife of another medical student. Her husband was Azorean and studied medicine. Manoel lived with the woman in A Coruña for a year. Manoel's mother, Rita Preciosa, supported them by selling her jewellery. Her daughters lost the ornaments they expected. With no money left, Rita stopped supporting Manoel and Simão. Rita had to repay the person who had fed Simão in Viseu and was still supporting him in Porto. Rita invited Manoel to return to Vila Real and bring the woman with him. The woman would stay at an inn until a home was found for her. Domingos was at Montezelos, separated from the family. They reached Porto fifteen days after Simão entered prison.
The two brothers had never liked one another. Misfortune made Simão's bad temper seem less serious. He felt orphaned, although his parents were alive. He kept only a fond memory of his younger sister, Rita. Manoel opened his arms, but Simão received him coldly. Manoel asked about the disaster; Simão replied: ‘It is in the case file.’ Manoel asked whether Simão expected to be released, but Simão did not think about it. Manoel offered him clothes, but Simão refused. He said that he accepted charity only from Mariana. Mariana's beauty caused Manoel to form false suspicions. He asked who she was, and Simão called her an angel. Mariana introduced herself as the servant of both brothers. She came from the outskirts of Viseu. Manoel asked whether she always accompanied Simão; Mariana hesitated. Simão interrupted her: ‘Your curiosity troubles me, brother Manoel.’ As he left, Manoel asked whether Simão wanted to send a message to their mother. Simão replied that he did not.
That afternoon, two magistrates visited Manoel at the inn. One was the appellate judge Mourão Mosqueira, a senior magistrate. The other was the crime corregedor, a criminal magistrate. The police found out where Manoel was; Domingos's former colleagues offered help. Manoel falsely presented the Azorean woman as his sister Ana Amália. Mourão knew the sisters and found that face unfamiliar. They asked about Simão; Manoel said that he had visited his poor brother. Mourão stated that the death sentence would not be carried out. The court was preparing ten years of exile in India. It was only a forecast; there was no final decision yet. Domingos was helping Simão, but powerful relatives of Baltasar opposed him. The magistrates wished to acquit him, but considered it impossible. Simão confessed the crime and refused to say that he acted to defend himself. Mourão called him mad and unfortunate, but also very noble. Albuquerque supporters demanded Simão's head, Mourão said. Manoel asked about Teresa; the crime magistrate called her a heroine. They had thought Teresa near death, but hope gave her strength. According to the crime magistrate, the doctor said that Teresa was safe. Mourão asked the Azorean woman whether she knew Teresa; the woman replied and looked at Manoel. Mourão said that Teresa was very beautiful, and Manoel confirmed it. The magistrates sent their regards to Domingos and Manoel's mother, Rita Preciosa, and left.
In the street, Mourão said that the woman was Manoel's married companion. The crime magistrate felt offended by the lie and promised to investigate. The crime magistrate wrote to Domingos that he had met Manoel and one of Domingos's daughters. The crime magistrate joked: he would send another embrace through her, if he could teach her how to embrace a father.
Manoel's mother, Rita Preciosa, helped him prepare a modest house for the Azorean woman. Domingos remained at Montezelos and refused to see his son. He called him a deserter from the sixth cavalry regiment. Domingos ordered the case to be investigated in secret. The police found the woman, and Domingos wrote to the local justice official. The judge heard her sincere story through her tears and felt sorry for her. The judge informed Domingos, and Domingos stayed at the judge's house. Meanwhile, the provincial general was preparing Manoel's arrest.
The Azorean woman expected to meet the judge, but found Domingos. The stern man introduced himself as Manoel's father and said he knew the story. He considered his son guilty and the woman his victim. Even so, he said that her conscience would judge her adultery. She came from Faial and had a mother and sisters. She believed that her mother would still give her shelter. Domingos warned that Manoel might already be under arrest or in hiding. Without him, the woman had no protection at all. She sobbed and admitted that she had no money to return. Domingos offered her a journey that very day. A carriage would be waiting, and a maid would go with her to Porto. In Porto, she would deliver a letter to arrange the journey to Lisbon. In Lisbon, another helper would put the woman aboard the first ship to the Azores. Domingos promised to pay for everything, and the woman accepted the unexpected charity.
A few hours later, the student's wife was preparing to leave. ‘Her husband died of passion or shame!’ a sensitive female reader exclaims. ‘No, madam,’ the narrator replies. The student was still alive and continued studying medicine at university. With irony, the narrator says that such deaths are inventions. He recalls Almeida Garrett's play Frei Luís de Sousa. In the satire, ancient philosophers offered their wives to friends. The husband neither grew thin nor abandoned his studies. The woman, much weaker and without hope, travelled tearfully to Porto.
In Porto, she delivered the letter to the crime magistrate. Domingos ordered that she be sent through Lisbon to her mother in Faial. He would pay for the whole journey. In the letter, Domingos compared his two sons with bitter irony. Manoel, at least, had killed no one to become a lover. He wrote that this already made him a very virtuous young man. He asked the crime magistrate to obtain a pardon for Manoel, the deserter. He believed that it was only possible to save Simão from the gallows. Temporary exile seemed unavoidable, but it was not yet a decision. According to Domingos, powerful forces in Lisbon were fighting against Simão. Because Domingos was no longer a magistrate, the police intendant treated him badly.
The Azorean woman travelled through Lisbon to Faial, where her mother thought her dead. She lived more calmly, but without her former illusions. The crime magistrate obtained Manoel's pardon. Manoel transferred to a regiment in Lisbon. After his father's death, he left the army and returned to the province.