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Jodi name for Mihir-Tulsi
Originally posted by: chatterbox
i didnt see it but i didnt remmber if it was before or after
my memory is like that only 😆
Idiot - how can you forget?????? We had a long dicsussion on telepathy on my thread last week when that was shown!!!😆
Idiot - how can you forget?????? We had a long dicsussion on telepathy on my thread last week when that was shown!!!😆
ok u know i m absent minded that way
ab yaad nahi aa raha to kya karoon
i dont hv elephant memory na😆
Originally posted by: chatterbox
ok u know i m absent minded that way
ab yaad nahi aa raha to kya karoon
i dont hv elephant memory na😆
Huhn!!! I am a little mouse and still got an elephant memory!!! You billis are useless!!!😉😆
Huhn!!! I am a little mouse and still got an elephant memory!!! You billis are useless!!!😉😆
ab kya karooon
is chhote se chhuhe ke peeche bhaag bhaag kar meri memory bhi bhaag gayi hai
itna bhagaya hai is jerry mouse ne 😉
Yes hansa di tomorrow's epi has a very beatiful scene coming up..CB di did u really find that scene boring?.. I loved it a lot.. This was the beauty of Betty La Fea.. It has such a beatiful story.. beautiful scenes, characters.. everything was so mesmerizing..Hai mai mar jawaan 😳 😳 😳 ... Ironically this was the same epi where JJKN turned into a joke... it was like every other serial..It was this epi where our Tumdo Dumdo deviated from the original.. 🤢 ..Tweedle dee Tweedle Dum(Thanks to Jprasad) ...I'm sorry I always keep whinning over this in every 3 rd post of mine..but kya karein BLF ka Jaadu hi aisa hai.. This is the only thing over which I'll crib all my life until TD make a sequel or a new serial, with the same actors and characters, forget what they had made JJKN into after tomorrows episodes(originally 21/03/05 epi in India).. and start afresh copying the whole of the original story of BLF hereafter 😃 😛 ..
No +sb - we can all empathise with your sentiments. It was waaaaaay stoopid of them to deviate from the original track!!! What the hell were they thinking??????? For example, why the hell didn't they show Armaan reading Jassi's diary like Armando did??????? It would have been such a beautiful scene!!! Does anyone have the update of that episode of BLF????????😕
Hansa di u can call me Aditi.. As far as diary scene goes it along one.. I'm copy pasting the whole diary scene alongwith the office staff and others adding a bit of theirs.. I didn't edit that part as its important as well... I have all the BLF summaries thanks to Jassi Pretty 2 group..Main characters of the Diary scene
Armando- Our Armaan
Betty - Jassi
Michel - Purab
Mario-Raj
Marcella- Mallika
Armando decides to go to Betty's office to search for the picture the cuartel was talking about in which Michele and Betty are in a tight embrace. Hearing voices of the cuartel in his head, he closes the doors behind him and walks to the back where Betty left her purse. He picks up the purse and quickly turns his back to the window embracing the purse. Then he fishes for the picture while keeping a careful watch for anyone that might see him. When he finds the photo, he stares at it sullenly then, with a gasp, returns it to the purse. That is when he notices Betty's diary. After he removes the diary, he puts the purse back. Then he opens the diary (upside down), turns it over and begins to read:
"He is a man that I find marvelous. He helps me into his car, takes me to his club. He confesses his fears to me as if I the details would die with me. "
ARMANDO, whispering: What's this?
"He protects me from the wind and dizziness. He believes in me and begs that I do not abandon him, that I remain at his side, that he needs me ... a man who has everything ... who needs a woman like me ... ha ha ...but I don't know but that I need him too. ..."
A shadow passes behind the window at the other end of the office behind Armando's back ... Suddenly, the doors open ... Armando quickly tucks the diary inside his coat and stiffens upright. . . . In walks Betty with Michele . . .
Betty and Michel enter Presidencia to find Armando standing behind Betty's desk ...
Betty -- Don Armando?
Armando (picking up one of the folders on the desk) -- I apologize, forgive me for coming into your office, Betty. It's just that I was looking for ... a balance! Yes, last year's balance ... I wanted to check it, I'm worried. Do you have it? I can't find it.
Betty -- Yes, of course, doctor.
Armando simply stares at Betty and Michel, as if waiting for something.
Betty (turning to Michel) -- Have you two been introduced? He is ... Michel.
Armando (looking at Michel as if sizing up the enemy) -- Yes, we had already seen each other. Of course, then I didn't know who you really were. (Ironically) Now I know who you are. (Extends his hand to Michel) How's it going?
Michel (not backing down one bit from Armando's stare) -- Very well, thank you.
Betty (while Armando and Michel keep staring at each other) -- I love the fact that you know each other (Betty laugh). Doctor, here's the balance.
Armando (takes the balance from Betty without taking his eyes of Michel) -- Thank you, Betty.
Armando looks at Betty, then stares hard at Michel again, then one more time at Betty, and he heads for the door.
Armando -- Excuse me. (He leaves Presidencia).
Betty (taking a seat on the brown couch) -- Please sit down, Michel. Would you like something to drink?
Michel -- No, thank you. (Sits next to Betty on the couch) What a strange guy ... When I saw him earlier in the lobby, he was very nice to me, but now he seems to be another person.
Betty -- Yes, he's a little strange.
Michel -- What's his name?
Betty -- Armando Mendoza.
Michel -- Armando Mendoza? Hmm ... if my memory serves me right, the last time we were in Cartagena, at the Santa Teresa Hotel, a lot of your friends asked about him. They were surprised to hear that you had abandoned him, that you had resigned from EcoModa and had left him alone. Is he the same Armando Mendoza?
Betty -- Yes, he's the same.
Michel -- Was he your boss? Someone very important in your past?
Betty nods and looks uncomfortably away, fixing her glasses. Michel notices this and tactfully changes the subject.
Michel -- I love this office.
Betty -- Thank you.
In the second floor lobby, Bertha details for El Cuartel what she heard Armando tell Mario about Alejandra -- that he didn't touch her. All of the girls find this turn of events very strange and Sandra even wonders whether Armando lied to Mario, but Sofa responds that Don Armando would have no reason to lie to Don Mario. Armando walks up behind them, holding his jacket (so that the diary won't fall out, LOL), says excuse me, and rushes into his office. Inesita tells El Cuartel that she's sure something is going on with Don Armando ... he's acting very strangely. Bertha asks El Cuartel when they will share this new 'chisme' with Betty so that she will stop suffering over Armando and Alejandra, and Aura Mara tells her that she thinks it's best not to say anything and give Betty false hopes. El Cuartel agrees and Sofa adds that if they tell her, they will ruin everything with "the Frenchman" and that would be unforgivable. The phone at Sandra's desk rings and the Cuartel meeting is broken up as everyone heads back to their respective desks. As Sandra runs off to get some fabric samples for which she was asked, Sofa tells Inesita that she can tell she's not convinced of the fact that they should not tell Betty anything about what happened (better yet, what did not happen) between Armando and Alejandra. Inesita responds that she understands that telling Betty everything might ruin things with the Frenchman, but she also thinks Betty has a right to know what's going on because she's sure something strange is going on with Don Armando.
At his office, Armando takes out a bottle of whisky, sits down at his desk with the diary, serves himself a drink, and takes a big swallow before tackling the task ahead. He opens the diary and reads an entry:
"Today I confirmed that I cannot be loved by anyone. Men do not give themselves the opportunity to get to know 'feas'; they get to know women through sight only. A beautiful woman has the homefield advantage with a man just because she is pretty. He listens to her, he desires her, and puts up with everything for her. He doesn't even listen to 'feas'. I am ugly, but fortunately, that doesn't matter to one man ... on the contrary, he needs me."
Armando turns back to the page where the entry started to look for the date ... He says to himself, in wonder: "October 23rd ... she was already working for me."
Armando continues reading the entry:
"And I'm happy because I know that I can be by his side for a long time even if I don't receive anything in return."
Out in the second floor lobby, the phone starts to ring again at Sandra's desk. Since Sandra has not returned, Patricia tells Aura Mara that she should answer her friend's phone. Aura Mara answers that all Patricia has to do is reach over to answer the call, but Patricia tells her that they don't pay her "to reach over" and answer everyone's phones. She then mimics the way Aura Mara answers the phone, "EcoModa, a la rden", and Aura Mara tells her to just shut up and go back to work ... she gets up from her desk to walk over to Sandra's to answer her phone and, to Patricia's delight, answers it exactly as she had predicted, "EcoModa, a la rden". While Patricia laughs at Aura Mara, Aura Mara answers the call which is for Armando. She walks over to his office to tell him that he has a call.
In his office, Armando takes another sip of his whisky and continues reading:
"He is wonderful to me. He takes me to the club in his car, he confesses his fears to me, all the while not knowing that I'm dying with every one of his little details."
Armando looks up and says to himself, while pointing at the diary, "That was me. She's referring to me in here." Aura Mara bursts in and tells Armando that he's got a call from Buenos Aires, and he firmly tells her that he doesn't want to take any calls, he doesn't want to see anyone, he doesn't want anyone to come in to his office today. He adds in an exasperated tone, "Do you understand? Please close the door. Thank you!" Aura Mara leaves and Armando goes back to the diary:
"He protects me against wind and surf. He believes in me, he begs me not to leave him, pleads with me to remain by his side, tells me that he needs me. He, the man that has everything in life, needs a woman like me. And I don't know how to tell him that I need him too, that I would die if he left me. And that's why I'm scared ... because he needs me for work-related reasons, and I need him for love."
Armando, noticeably upset now, takes another sip of his whisky, stands up, and continues reading:
"He is with me every hour of the day. I spend all day with him, at the office, until night falls. And when I'm not with him, I imagine him everywhere. I am delirious for him. I don't know what I will do after tomorrow ... I won't see him for two weeks. It will be the first time that I won't see him for such a long period of time ... I don't know how I can bear his absence, because I think that there's already something definite within me: I love Doctor Armando. And I'm scared."
Armando looks up from the diary and somberly says to himself, "Since when have you loved me, Betty? How long has it been?"
Back at Presidencia, Michel and Betty continue their talk:
Michel -- If you tell me that you are leaving this dark period that you lived behind, something that I don't want to ask you about ... that you want to make a radical change in your life and give yourself another chance, that for me would be marvelous, it would be great to work with you.
Betty -- Thank you so much, but I can't believe you're serious, because I know nothing about restaurants or anything of the sort.
Michel -- Yes, but I remember that in Cartagena you told me that the world of beauty and of beauty queens was not your world. Now let me ask you something: when you came here, did you know anything about fabrics, stores or clothing?
Betty -- No (Betty laugh) ... nothing. I didn't even know how to dress.
Michel -- And look how far you've come! You are now the president of one of the most important Colombian clothing companies. You accomplish everything you want. Now, if you tell me that you don't wish to retire from the fashion industry, then that's another thing.
Betty -- No ... I've done well and I've learned to handle the company's business. But right now I'm saturated ... I don't know if that's because of the atmosphere here ...
Michel -- Then you can give Cartagena a chance, try out the atmosphere there, and if you don't like it, then return. But in any event, any fashion company here would snap you up.
Betty -- Are you sure that I would be useful to you?
Michel -- I would bet my life on it (literally he said: I would put my hands on the fire, but that doesn't make sense in English, LOL!). I wouldn't only have the best manager, the best administrator, the best executive, but I would also have a wonderful woman. Betty, I need a woman like you to hand over my company to, a woman that can do what you have done for this company. And I know that this would be just as important to me as it was to your former boss, Armando Mendoza.
That certain former boss continues to read the diary:
"I don't want him to fail, it would hurt me. And I also would feel responsible for his failure and I am scared. I am scared of what he might do, I'm scared because of the company that he asked me to form behind his family's back, of that blank promissory note that he signed. It's wonderful that he believes in me, that he trusts me so much, but I'm scared of what he might ask me to do for EcoModa. He's definitely a strange man. He handed his company to me because he definitely trusts me more than anyone else in this world. And I don't want to let him down."
Armando looks up once again; tears have begun to well up in his eyes. Realization has dawned as to how much Betty loved him.
And over at Presidencia ...
Michel -- The office that you would have in Cartagena is nothing like this one; you wouldn't have the comforts that you have here. (Michel starts walking around Presidencia pointing at all the windows). But, for example, you would have a window like this one, looking out over the sea. Can you imagine sitting at your desk looking out to the ocean instead of into a company? And then, over where this wall is, another window, but without curtains ... and here, only blue, blue, blue. And over here, another window, one that looks like a painting but it's really the Old City. Doesn't the idea seduce you?
Betty -- A lot.
Michel (walking into Betty's old office) -- And here ... (pauses in dismay) ... no, not here. I don't think there's a place as dark and inhumane as this in Cartagena. Does someone work in here?
Betty -- I used to work here when I was Don Armando's assistant.
Michel (shocked) -- You worked here? Don Armando had you in here?!?
Betty -- Yes, because there was no other available place in the company and he wanted me by his side. And I worked here until I took over the presidency.
Michel -- I don't understand how you could stand it for so long in this hole.
Betty (smiling) -- The truth is that it wasn't as terrible as it seems. Here I lived very important moments in my life. And seated in that chair I dreamt a lot ... absurd things, but I dreamt.
Michel -- I really don't understand that. But let me tell you something: I would never do this, never. But I would love for you to see the office that I have for you in Cartagena, it's just that it's ... (looks around Betty's old office again, becoming indignant) I can't believe that Armando Mendoza had his right-hand person in here, the most important person to him at work.
In his office, Armando continues reading:
"Right now, I am the most important woman to him, even more so than his girlfriend. But at the same time, I don't exist to him as a woman. I spent an infernal night locked up in my office and he didn't remember I was there. (Armando flashes back to the morning when he found Betty asleep at her desk and he threw a piece of paper at her to wake her up). I only exist as an employee and not as a woman. I heard him say that he is waiting for the ideal woman and he doesn't realize that she's already there, only a few meters away from his desk. (Armando is now openly crying). But I don't have the weapons to show him that I am that woman that he needs, the one that he's waiting for."
Armando looks up from the diary again, obviously in pain now ... and crying.
Out in the second floor lobby, Cata exits the elevator, greets everyone, and then asks Aura Mara where Betty is. Aura Mara says she's not sure, but she thinks she's still with the Frenchman ... she offers to page her. Cata asks Aura Mara how Betty reacted to Michel's appearance and Aura Mara tells her that Betty almost died upon seeing him, she was so happy ... it was almost like a dream come true.
Back to the diary:
"Today one of my most cherished dreams came true ... the one that was the farthest from my reach. One of my fantasies came true, one that I believed would go to the tomb with me. Don Armando told me that he loved me, that he was obsessed with me, that he was jealous of Nicols. (Tears are streaming down Armando's face). And he kissed me, he kissed me on the lips. (Armando flashes back to that first kiss in the dingy bar, when Betty fainted – we see the horrible faces he made as he kissed her). I felt that the world was slipping away from me, I thought it was my fantasy playing tricks on my imagination, that makes me see a Don Armando that is in love with me but that always walks away. But this Don Armando was real, he himself confirmed it for me ... and I became certain when I caressed his face. (Armando's tears keep flowing like a river). He was the bone-and-flesh Don Armando that is by my side all day. He was that severe and implacable man with whom I fell in love. It was a real kiss." (Armando flashes back to the neurotic brushing of his teeth after that first kiss and cries even harder at the memory).
A tormented Armando cannot bear to read anymore. He looks up once again, brushes his forehead with his hand, looks around in shock and pain, and says to himself, "Noooo ..." Meanwhile, the tears continue to flow.
Betty is talking to Dona Catalina and asks her if she called Michel to come to her rescue. Betty tells her she's made her decision and that she wants to leave EcoModa as soon as possible. Betty informs Cata that Armando broke up with Marcela because he is probably interested in Alejandra and she can't bear to see him with anyone else.
Armando continues reading Betty's diary. While he reads all the beautiful things Betty feels for him, he recalls how he abhorred getting close to her and would have to get drunk to kiss her.
Cata asks Michel why he thought of Betty for the job in Cartagena. Cata tells Michel that she always worries about Betty and likes to look after her. She also says that she feels that his proposal will be a good thing for Betty.
Cata goes to the boardroom to talk to Betty. Betty is deep in thought and Cata wants to know if she is thinking about Cartagena. Cata tells Betty that after speaking to Michel she feels that his proposal would be a good thing for her. Cata also tells Betty that Michel is interested in her but that Betty hasn't wanted to notice. Betty tells Cata that she still feels something for Armando and that she can't think about Michel right now. Betty says she has to talk this over with one more person.
Armando is still reading the diary and gets to the part where they make love for the first time. When he finishes reading he screams out, "No, No!!!!"
Betty goes to see Nicolas and tells him she is going to resign form EcoModa. She tells him she received a very good proposal. He tells her not to do this to his heart and pocketbook!
Armando is reading the part where Betty says she has discovered the man she loves is her "verdugo" (how do you say that in English?). Armando loses control and begins to shout, "No, No!!" over and over. He trashes his desk. Patricia and Sandra are scared by the noise and Aura Maria hurries over to where they are and asks what the noise was. Sandra tells her it's coming from Don Armando's office!
Aura Maria and Patricia look on as Sandra stands at the door of Armando's office attempting to find out if he is all right. Armando yells at her to go away and Patricia tells them to do something. Aura Maria sends Sandra after Mario to see if he may be able to help.
Meanwhile, Betty is still discussing the job opportunity and move with Nicolas. Betty is telling him that she can not stay and watch Armando begin a new life with another woman. Nicolas understands her feelings but is also concerned that he and her father will be without a job once she leaves. Nicolas jokes that he and don Hermes can work in a restaurant or be fishermen. Nicolas makes Betty laugh with the faces he makes as he describes the new opportunities that await him and don Hermes.
Betty tells Nicolas that he and her father must continue on with Terra Moda. Once Terra Moda is disassociated with Eco Moda they must not let it die. Nicolas says that he understands. His talking about being unemployed was a means of asking her not to leave. He says that it's fine. That if she has to go she must. He goes on to say that she has done a lot for him, her family and the Company. It is time that they think about her. He says that it is important for them to find out if what the Frenchman is proposing is serious and correct. They need to make sure that he is not playing with her. Betty tells him that she has confidence in Michel. Betty tells him that he is in her office and she wants to introduce him.
Sandra is coming around the corner with Mario and telling him about Armando's behavior and that she believes that he is drinking. Mario wants to know if the door is locked to which she answers that it is. Mario decides to enter through the conference room. Bertha and Sophia come up to Sandra to find out what is occurring. Sandra fills them in.
Aramando is in his office, hugging the diary and rocking himself back and forth. He is telling himself that he is the worst thing that has existed and that he should not have been born. Mario enters through the conference room. He asks Armando what has happened. Armando tells him that he wants to be alone. Mario says that it's fine and begins to step out. Armando thanks him. Mario puts his hand in and waves a white flag. He tells Armando that he is a friend. He asks him what is happening and advises him to calm done. Armando becomes upset and throws a book at him and orders him to leave. Mario doesn't. Armando asks if he doesn't understand that he, Armando, should not exist. He should be in hell and rotting. He said that he is better dead. (While he is speaking to him, Armando is holding Betty's diary in his hand.)
Mario tells him that everything is fine and to be tranquil. Mario takes hold of the diary, but is not able to pull it out of his hand. He asks Armando what it is. Armando answers that it is a diary of a disaster. Mario takes the diary and Armando quickly takes it away. Armando tells him that he is not going to touch it. It is Betty's diary and he is not going to stain it with his dirty hands. Mario asks how he was able to obtain the diary. Armando looks as though he is about to cry and he kicks things on the floor and answer that he pulled it out of her purse. Armando crying tells him that he never noticed how much she loved him and how much pain he had caused her.
Mario reminds him that he knew from the beginning that she loved him and asks why is he now tormented. Armando answers that he fell in love with an angel. He fell in love with a person that put him on a pedestal. He tells him that in that diary he read about the last days of his life. It was written by a woman who loved him and lived for him. He asks him if he can understand that. He says that this woman tried to write what she felt while she was in that dark office that they put her in. He tells him that she loved him before they came up with their formula of seducing and deceiving her. He tells him that in that diary it is written everything that he did to her. He says that she didn't deserve it. He asks him if he knows what he found in that diary. He tells him that he encountered the ashes of a woman that he killed. The pieces of a good human being.
After having agreed to all that Armando was saying, Mario tells him that he is making him nervous and that he needs a whisky. Armando gets upset and points to where a half empty whisky bottle is located and brings out another in case the first is not enough. Mario asks if he plans on continuing to torment himself. Armando answers that he is and that it is his own problem. Armando sits down and turns his back to Mario. We hear Betty's voice as he continues to read and he finally turns around to look at Mario.
Sandra is informing the Cuartel that Mario is now with Armando. Bertha wants to know how long Armando has been drinking. Aura Maria says that she doesn't know, but when she went into the office he had already started. Sophia wants to know what is happening to him. Inesita believes that it is because Betty is with the Frenchman. Sophia wonders if he thinks that Frenchman has come to take his business away. At the moment, Betty and Nicolas come out of his office. The Cuartel asks if they can speak to her, but she tells them that she doesn't have time. Bertha tells her that she needs to make time because they need to tell her something. Betty and Nicolas look at her with curiosity.
Betty asks what is occurring. Bertha tells her that Armando is acting crazy and that he is very strange. They don't know what is happening. Some of the Cuartel clear their throats and Nicolas says that he understands and leaves them alone with Betty. They tell her how Armando went into the women's bathroom on the pretext to find out what they were doing. However, it was a lie because all he did was ask questions about the Frenchman. Betty is taken aback and asks what would he want to know if she has already introduced them to each other. Sophia tells her that Armando gets jealous anytime someone gets close to her. Mariana tells her how they told him that Michel was such a "galan". Bertha goes on to tell her how they told him that they had walked on the beach plus the rest of the story they told. Everyone, including Betty, begins to laugh. Betty tells them that she and Michel never walked on the beach. Bertha says what does it matter if they did or didn't. Betty asks why they told him all of that. Aura Maria tells her that they did it so that he will know that other men are turning to look at her. Also, that she hasn't lost anything not being with him. Mariana tells her that they told him that Michel had come after her. Betty says that he will know believe that Michel has come to manipulate her in order to obtain the Company. This explains why Armando looked at Michel the way he did.
Sophia says that it doesn't matter because the Frenchman didn't come to take the Company or Betty. Betty goes silent and turns away. Sophia quickly gets up and asks if Michel came to steal the Company. Betty answers no, but he did come to take her. In unison the Cuartel yells, "What!". Betty fills them in on what he offered. Aura Maria asks if she plans on accepting. Betty says that everything is going well for the Company and her relationship with Armando and Marcela has worsened. She says that seeing Armando begin a new life with another woman would kill her. In turn, Michel has offered her a new life, a change, the ocean, a better job in a beautiful city. Bertha asks if she is going.
After a brief period of silence, Sophia says that their days are counted. Mariana asks why doesn't she take them with her. Betty tells them that the Company does not have the capacity to employ them and they would have to move with their families and that would not be easy. Sandra asks if she realizes what terrible news she is giving them. Betty says yes, but that it is time to think of herself and it is a great opportunity. Bertha asks if besides work, is there another reason why he wants to take her. Aura Maria says that of course there is. Betty says that will have to wait until later. Sophia tells her that she should not let that opportunity pass because of them. Betty tells them that she is not leaving right away as there are things that need to be organized. She would like to leave as soon as possible. She tells them not to worry because she plans on leaving them very secure in their positions.
Inesita asks Betty if she has told Armando that she is leaving. Betty answers no. Sandra tells her not to tell him today. They continue to tell her about Armando's behavior and how they had to call Mario to try to calm him. Betty asks out loud what could be happening. Inesita says that she believes it has to do with Michel. Betty immediately believes that Armando thinks that Michel has come to take the Company. She says that it's best not to talk to him today. The Cuartel is worried that Armando could hit him and leave his face bruised. Bertha thinks that the bruises would go very well with his blue eyes. Sophia suggests that Betty and Michel leave immediately.
Cata is telling Michel that one of the problems that Betty may encounter is leaving her parents. She tells him how they have a very close relationship. Michel thinks that this is marvelous and would like to know what they do. At this point, Betty enters. Cata tells her what they were talking about and Betty tells Michel that her father is an accountant and her mother a housewife. Betty tells them that she doesn't know what they have planned, but that she would like to leave. Michel suggests that they go out to dinner or somewhere else. Cata says that she has plans, but suggests that they go out.
After Cata leaves, Michel asks where they will be going. Betty says that since she doesn't go out much she doesn't know of any places. Her telephone rings and it's her mother. Her mother informs her that don Hermes would like to know what time she plans on arriving home. Betty tells her that a friend from Cartagena is in town and that they plan on going out. Dona Julia asks if it is the one from the photo. Betty answers the same. Dona Julia asks why doesn't she bring him home in order for them to meet him. Betty explains to her that he is in town on business and that he doesn't know Bogata. Michel asks what is happening. Betty promises to take him the next time he is in town. Michel immediately agrees to go and meet her. Betty agrees to take him.
After hanging up, dona Julia is very excited. Running back and forth she tells don Hermes that Betty is bringing over a French friend. She orders him to take out the whisky while she cooks and she orders him to get dressed. Don Hermes wants to know where Betty met this man. After finding out that it was in Cartagena, don Hermes tells her that he had told her that he didn't believe that Betty had not behaved as well as she had said.
The Cuartel is discussing how they are going to loose a great friend. Inesita believes that the only thing that could keep her there is if she knew that Armando was changing and that there is nothing between him and Alejandra. Aura Maria asks how can they do that to her. If they were to tell her, she would stay. Armando would then begin dating someone else and Betty would have lost her opportunity with Michel. They are all in agreement that this is the time to think about Betty.
Nicolas comes out of his office and asks the Cuartel what is wrong. He asks if someone died. Bertha answers that it feels as though Betty has died. At the moment, Betty and Michel come out of her office. Betty is telling Michel what her father is like and that it might not be a good idea for them to go. Michel tells her that if she is seriously considering moving to Cartagena, he would be happy for them to get to know him. The Cuartel and Nicolas witness the conversation. Michel believes that her parents should join them in Cartagena. Upon seeing Nicolas, Betty introduces him to Michel as her best friend, almost her brother. Nicolas congratulates him on his new business and Michel tells him that he would be happy for him to come visit them in Cartagena. As he is saying this, he puts his arm around Betty. The Cuartel let out a sigh in unison. Betty asks what is wrong. Bertha answers nothing. Betty asks about Armando and Sandra says that he is still with Mario. After they leave, Sandra sarcastically comments on how happy they were when he first arrived.
In Armando's office, Armando continues to read while Mario looks on with a whisky in hand. Armando is reading the section where Betty has written that her kisses make Armando sick. Armando pounds his hand at the wall saying that it can't be. Mario wants to know what is happening. He tells him that the diary states how he was only with her in order to save the Company and that her kisses made him sick. He says that this has to stop now.
Armando has hit the emotional "wall" (literally and figuratively), now what's next?
THE EX-EXECUTIVE SUITE
"This has to stop now! She's going to hate me for the rest of her life!" cries Armando.
"Calm down, don't exaggerate so," wheedles Mario. "Keep in mind she has her "visitor"... her "monsieur"..." (As if this is going to calm Armando-reminding him that she's got a new distraction!)
"That's an even graver problem," Armando replies, his desperation continues to mount. "The Cuartel told me that there's chemistry between them! Between Betty and the Frenchman there's chemistry! And (based upon what) I just finished reading, I'm not going to permit him to take her away!" He waves the sacred diary in Mario's face for emphasis and slams it down on the desk. "I'm not going to let that happen! No! I'm never going to let that happen!"
Mario will agree to anything Armando says at this point to avoid further confrontation. "Perfect, perfect!"
2ND FLOOR RECEPTION
Marcela, meanwhile, wants to know what's going on with Armando and what's behind the racket he's making, so she's come out to check with Patricia.
"Is it true you don't know what's happening in the office?"
"No idea. All I know is that the Cuartel called Mario in and now they're locked in there together." Patricia is equally adrift as to what's going on and you can tell it's killing her. Just then she spots Betty and Michel rounding the corner and she hisses to Marcela, "The French guy! The French guy!" so that her friend can check out the hunk for herself. "There's the French guy!" The two play coy, appearing to review a magazine, and Betty and Michel approach.
Betty stops, she's looking for something in her purse (the diary). Michel notes her hesitation.
"Has something happened?"
"Yes. It's just that I can't find a very important book..."
She and Michel note the two women (and their studied nonchalance) and Betty offers a terse, "Buenas," which Michel politely echoes. Marcela and Patricia repeat the greeting (their "nonchalance" cover is blown when you can tell that the magazine they're "reading" - Who's Who 2001 - is upside down!) and from the looks on their faces, they enjoyed their glimpse of the Frenchman. (Oh Marcela... it's good to see that you can enjoy some 'scenery' and leave aside for a second your Armando fixation!) Betty and Michel enter the elevator and head downstairs.
"Wow... He's divine, isn't he Marcela?" swoons Patricia.
Armando rushes out of his office and slams the door shut, making the two women jump. He heads towards Betty's office.
"Armando!" Marcela calls after him. "What was happening in your office? They tell me that they heard a horrible noise?"
He whirls around to respond tersely - he doesn't have time for this, he's got to talk to Betty! "Yes, they did. I smashed it up. I did it myself," he takes an impatient, self-mocking half bow as if to say, "Y eso...Qu?" and heads back down the hallway without a backward glance.
"He's very strange," Patricia advises Marcela. "He's kind of half crazy!"
The Cuartel is speculating on who at Eco Moda might assume the presidency after Betty. Sofia ventures that there are few options, "Perhaps Do-a Marcela?" This doesn't sit well with the others.
"And then the Peliteida is automatically a vice-president? How's that!" pouts Sandra.
Behind her we see Armando approaching.
"Then, Daniel Valencia..." proposes Sofia.
"No!" exclaim the others.
"The other option is Don Roberto..." she adds.
The others murmur that that could be acceptable.
"...Or the hyena Don Armando..." Sofia never learns her lesson about publicly insulting her superiors because the "hyena" himself has passed within earshot of this salvo and he pulls up, a very testy look on his face.
"Are you talking about me?" inquires Armando, doing his very best Travis Bickle.
Busted, Sofia hops up and starts to try and deny her guilt. "Oh no! We were talking about another hyena... (He's not happy, try again!) We were speaking about another beast... (No, that's not it either!) Of another Don Armando..."
With a sharp look, he leaves them to rush into Betty's office, only to discover her gone. He returns to the Cuartel with an accusatory, "Where is Beatriz?"
Aura Maria volunteers the obvious, "She left."
"Where did she go?"
The Cuartel exchange nervous glances - should we tell him anything? Aura Maria tells him that they don't know, all Betty told them was, "Ciao..."
"Did she leave alone," asks Perry Mason Mendoza, "or did she leave with the Frenchman?"
More nervous looks. "With the Frenchman," confesses Aura Maria.
Armando's pained by this inevitable news. "How long since they left?" The answer's not quickly forthcoming. (Ins jumps her line a bit) and he shouts again, "How long since they left?"
Ins ventures in a conspiratorial whisper, "It's only been a few minutes."
Armando seizes on this information and rushes off, leaving the Cuartel to berate Ins for saying anything to Armando about Betty. Ins is unrepentant.
"Who are we to deny this information to Don Armando?"
He taps incessantly on the elevator button, willing it to appear.
Marcela and Patricia can't figure him out. "What is going on with you, Armando?" asks Marcela. "Calm down!"
The elevator opens to reveal Freddy grooming himself. Armando enters the elevator and grabs him. "Have you seen Betty?"
He nervously tells Armando that he's just seen the Colombian with the French bread. Armando tosses him out of the elevator to the amazement of Marcela and Patricia and to Freddy as well, and the doors close on him. Freddy is shaken by this peremptory side of Armando and pulls out Armando's old ID badge from under his own. "Lately I've seen an inexplicable side to the Doctor," he comments, looking at the card in amazement.
OUTSIDE ECO MODA
Wilson greets Betty as she and Michel leave the building. Outside, Michel notes that he doesn't have a car, should he ask for a taxi? Betty informs him that she has her own car and points to it. She beeps the unlocking remote and laughs.
"Don't tell me that you're one of those whose afraid of women who drive!" she asks him playfully.
"No, it's just that I feel a little less amiable when they drive," counters Michel. (Ah hah! Could this be his first 'wart'?)
Betty offers him the car keys so that he can drive and he escorts her to the passenger side. She enters and he says, "Yeah... No I feel better!" As he walks around to the driver's side, Betty looks nervously to the entrance. She definitely wants to escape before Armando notices she's gone. Michel enters and fires up the engine and backs out. They're way down the block when Armando rushes out the door, shouting for her.
"Betty!" (Look, he's found his glasses!)
Wilson points out to him where they've gone and Armando looks down the street after them. He runs back over to Wilson and asks where his car is.
"Your car? You parked it in the garage. Don't you remember?"
"I parked it in the garage?" In other words, Armando, it's not handy to go chase after her.
"It's not my fault you parked it in the garage," Wilson counters apologetically.
This is getting Armando nowhere. He asks Wilson if he heard where they were going.
"In truth, I didn't see or hear anything," Wilson is no help and Armando's patience is frayed. "The only thing I noted was when she gave him the car keys so that he could drive."
"Ah hah? So the French guy is driving Betty's car?" Armando's annoyance factor is rising exponentially. "That's great!" As he reenters the building he leaves Wilson with a few parting insults, "Blind! Deaf! Brute!"
2ND FLOOR RECEPTION
Ins is still defending her actions to the Cuartel. "Well you can be annoyed with me all you want, but you're making attributions that never happened. How's that? Making decisions for Betty without consulting her? Now that the Frenchman is taking her away you're all crying! Who can understand you?"
Patricia has called it to Marcela's attention that the Cuartel's not working.
"Let's see..." Marcela asks cynically, "When does your meeting end, ladies? It's only that the business would like to know what hours we can count on from you."
The Cuartel sadly say that they're done and Marcela is about to pursue the reason for their mopey behavior when Armando returns to the 2nd floor.
"Aura Maria!" he shouts stridently. "Aura Maria!"
"Here I am, Doctor!" she calls over to him.
"I need you to get me in touch with Beatriz, urgently. I need to speak with her!"
"But Doctor," hesitates Aura Maria, "I don't know where I can get in contact with her."
"And you don't have her number for her cellphone? Or am I mistaken?"
Armando is making Aura Maria very nervous (and everyone else too with his intensity and wild demeanor). "Yes, Doctor..."
"Call her!"
"Yes, I'll get her..." She runs to go do so.
Armando turns back towards his office, walking right between Marcela and Patricia as if they didn't exist. The two exchange a stunned look. He thinks of something and turns back again. With a flick of the hand he shoulders aside Patricia as if she were a pesky mosquito and draws a bead on the rest of the Cuartel.
"And what's the matter with you? Why do you all look so sad? Hmm...?"
Ins volunteers hesitantly, "It's that Betty told us just a short while ago that very soon she's going to resign from Eco Moda."
This news just about wipes out Armando. It's all he can do to hold back the tears. "I see... She told you this? When is she going to leave Eco Moda?" When they hesitate he calmly urges them, "Look... Tell me to my face... Tell me the truth. What's happening?" They don't answer him and his tenuous hold on his temper slips. "Tell... me... what... is... happening!"
Berta swallows and begins; "It's that the French guy who came... from Cartagena... offered her a very good job."
Armando holds himself tightly (keeping himself under control?). "Good... good..." He can't stand this. "Aura Maria!" he shouts.
"Yes, Doctor?"
"Call Beatriz for me, but urgently, and pass her to me in my office! Move it!" he roars, his voice husky with unshed tears and panic. He wheels about and collides with Patricia (who's been holding her fingers under her nose all this time as if something smelled bad; apparently it's Armando and the smell of the alcohol). He gives her a wordless snarl and heads to his office.
She comments to Marcela that he's had a snootful, "He's been drinking!" As Marcela heads back to her office, Patricia grabs her. "Marcela! Marcela! Do you think Betty is leaving Eco Moda?"
THE EX-EXECUTIVE SUITE
In the doorway to his office Armando stops, making a fervent vow. "He's not going to take her away! He's not going to take her!" There in his office he spots Mario calmly seated at a tidier desk, lightly savoring Betty's diary. (Desgraciaaaado!)
"But what are you doing here? What are you doing?"
"Various things... Organizing the office because you left it a mess. Reading the diary... but I haven't finished it yet. It's very interesting. Look, I think the battle isn't lost yet because here (flipping pages) it says she's still in love with you..." Mario is pretty cool about all this and oblivious to his 'friend's' mood.
"Who gave you the authorization to read this, Caldron?" Armando leaps forward and seizes the diary from Mario's hands. He grabs him by the collar and shakes him for good measure. "Fool! How could you be so forward?"
Mario brushes him off and stands up (get out while the getting is good!) but Armando's not done with him yet. "You don't touch what is sacred! You understand? To me Betty is sacred!"
"What sacred? My god! We shared your private moments with her, what's the big deal? I don't know who knows it better, me or you!"
Mario's flippancy is the last straw for Armando. He hauls off and belts him, hard, across the jaw.
"Hey! Why did you hit me?" asks the bleeding and clueless Mario.
"Because you're a rat!" Armando's not finished with the insulting Mr. Dimples. He grabs him and prepares to toss him out, but shakes him instead. "You'll respect Betty for me! Understand this you, the man who respects nobody! You're going to respect Betty. How you're going to do this? I don't know, but you're going to learn!" He gives Mario a shove towards the door.
"Fine! Don't push me anymore! No more! But I don't know why you mix me up in your tragedy... You're the protagonist of all this! What did we do? You did it all!" Deny, deny, deny, Mario! "Besides, you're the one who told me what disgust it gave you to kiss her. What did we do? Then..." Any further insulting denials of complicity are cut off by another punishing blow from Armando's fist.
2ND FLOOR RECEPTION
Mario staggers out into the hallway, Armando hot in pursuit. He grabs Mario by the collar to the amazed horror of Sandra and Aura Maria. He shoves him into one of the lobby chairs.
"Not another word! Not another syllable!" he threatens Mario. "I tell you I'll kill you!"
"Come on, hit me!" challenges Mario (never more Satan-like, IMHO). "If that's what will make you feel cleaner. Hit me! But let me tell you, you're dirtier than I am. You're the one who executed it. You're the one who planned the "detalles". Now you want to beat your breast! The crime was yours... The crime was yours."
Sandra and Aura Maria are taking all this in - very interesting because there's no pretense that Armando's going to keep his role in the affair secret any longer, or so it would seem. He doesn't know that they know the truth, but he's clearly beyond caring.
"At least I have a soul burning," Armando counters fiercely. "At least I have I have sorrow, shame. At least I know that I'm paying for what I've done. I know that I don't have your cold blood, your cynicism... to continue enjoying and mocking at the expense of the flesh and blood woman who you and I destroyed and threw into disgrace!" Armando's words barely reach Mario. He seems more concerned with the avid gaze of the two women. Armando continues his passionate assault. "I could go to hell. Yes, to hell... But I will beg for forgiveness, a word that you don't know!
The other members of the Cuartel draw close, as do Marcela and Patricia. Mario looks to be half enjoying this scene.
"Because you, Caldron," continues Armando, "can't distinguish between the sacred and the garbage!"
Marcela steps forward, "Armando! What's happening?"
He pauses for a second, glancing with animosity at Mario, but Mario answers for him. "Nothing," he says lightly. "Nothing. We're just here having a hand-washing session. Armando just decided to do his with his fists, that's all." He saunters over to the elevator and presses the button. "I hope this serves to purify your soul and redeem you. Over all, I'm renouncing Eco Moda, and above all, our partnership. I resign from all of you... Many thanks." Entering the elevator, he takes the opportunity to get in a parting shot. "Ah, Armando! You think that hell is that black pit where sinners go after dying? No!" His eyes alight with wicked glee. "Your hell is here. Your hell is their's (pointing to the women). And their hell is you. May God keep you in his glory." Mario makes his cynical final exit as the elevator doors close, posing as if a priest offering his final benediction.
Armando walks to the elevator and smacks the wall, profoundly sad. Marcela walks over to him.
"Armando! What's this spectacle all about?"
"This is something between him and me."
"Yes, but you're using Eco Moda like a set!" She turns to the gawking women, "Get back to work!" They scurry and she turns back to Armando.
"Aura Maria, have you made that call yet?" Armando has only one thing on his mind.
"Yes, Doctor. I'm calling now," replies Aura Maria.
"I'm not going to ask you what's going on," says Marcela, "because I know. It's killing you that Beatriz is out with the Frenchman! And above all, it's killing you that she's going to leave Eco Moda with him!"
"Marcela, I don't want to be rude to you, but this is not your problem!"
"Yes it's my problem!" she counters. "When she's threatening to leave Eco Moda!"
"You know what...?" muses a fatigued Armando. "I have such little desire to continue listening to you..."
"Don't worry, I'm not going to bother you more. I'm going to give you time to assimilate what's going on with her. I tell you you're in a losing battle and you're in hell, like your friend says. But I'm telling you too that you're going to come out of it (hell) and when you do, we can talk then!" She leaves, striding towards her office.
Armando watches her leave with a sour expression. He turns to note the Cuartel who all of a sudden have become very busy, then heads back to his office. The women can hardly contain themselves, what with all of the drama recently enacted before their eyes.
THE EX-EXECUTIVE SUITE
Armando enters his own office and starts to mutter to himself. "Dammit, Caldron! Dammit! I hope you rot in hell! But her, Caldron, you respect her because she's sacred to me! Sacred!" He notes the diary on the desk and sits down to read some more. He flips to where he left off.
"But the brain never can go against the heart because the heart is irrational and mine, in this case, has no dignity. Tonight it beat like it had not beaten in a long time. With his single look, with his voice alone, I felt so weak. My heart did not wish to accept the logic of my disaster. It's as if it was immune to all Don Armando had done to me, a traitor that continues beating when I see Don Armando."
Armando's eyes fill with wonderment. He looks up and closes the book for a second. "What's this?" His voice barely a whisper. Dare he hope? "She still feels something for me? My God!" He continues reading.
CASA PINZN
Julia's putting out the snacks and the whiskey. Hermes hustles downstairs patting on the aftershave. Julia hears the beep-beep of Betty's horn and calls excitedly to her husband, "That should be them! Fix your tie, please."
Hermes replies contrarily, "What, is the king of France coming or what? Bla bla bla," he imitates speaking French to Julia's annoyment. She goes to open the door. Betty and Michel step inside and Betty introduces her parents to him. No sooner are names exchanged than Hermes jumps into it with Michel, "And where did you meet Betty?"
"Cartagena," says Michel softly.
"Oh ho," starts Hermes, but Julia cuts him off by inviting Betty and Michel to take a seat in the parlor. Hermes invites Michel to take a whiskey and he accepts. Betty's cell phone rings and she goes to the dining room to answer it.
"How's it going, girl, where are you?" asks Aura Maria.
"At my house," replies Betty. "Why?"
"Betty, Don Armando is like a crazy person," Aura Maria tells her nervously. "He wants me to locate you."
"For what?" asks an incredulous Betty.
"He wants to speak with you! Imagine, he found out that you left with the French guy and he went after you like a crazy man, then he wanted me to find you wherever!"
"Aura Maria, for nothing in the world should you tell him where I am," orders Betty. "I don't want any scandals in my house!"
"Oh Betty," cries Aura Maria, "Armando knows that you're going to leave Eco Moda and that you're going with Michel!"
This is the scariest news for Betty. "How can this be? How can he have learned all this?"
"Betty, you know how it is... We were here all a sea of tears and Don Armando came buy and noticed and started interrogating us. And Inesita told him that you were leaving! (tattletale!) And Berta got all frightened and told him you were going with Michel!"
Betty is hearing this news with trepidation. "Oh my God! And now what will he be thinking?" she wonders.
Aura Maria tells her about Armando's fight with Mario and how Mario has resigned and Betty is even more startled. Julia notes her daughters alarm and looks more than a little alarmed herself. Aura Maria tells her that Armando's locked in his office demanding that she locate Betty. Betty tells her that under no condition should she tell Armando where she is. Aura Maria agrees fervently and tells Betty to turn off her cell phone. "Cause he'll ask me for the number!"
Betty agrees and thinks to ask Aura Maria another question. She tells her that she's misplaced a notebook, perhaps in her office. It's like a student's notebook, with flowers on the cover. At this description (and the news that it's misplaced) Julia reacts with alarm. She knows darn well it's the diary!
"When you find it, guard it well. Don't let anyone see it, and don't even look at it yourself, you see?"
Aura Maria promises to comply with this request. Betty hangs up and Julia asks her what the problem is.
"Don Armando is like a crazy person," she tells her mother. "If he calls, tell him that I'm not here, that you don't have any idea where I am."
Julia wants to know why and Betty confesses that it's because he's discovered that soon she's going to go to Cartagena to work with Michel. This is not a pleasant surprise for Julia. Betty asks her if they can speak of it later and they agree to do so, hurrying off to attend to Hermes and Michel.
THE EX-EXECUTIVE SUITE
Armando continues reading the diary.
"Today I'm sure about one thing: I can't support the idea of seeing Don Armando resume his life with another woman at his side."
He rises to his feet, amazement and hope growing in him.
"That would be most painful for me and if this were to happen, I would have to leave Eco Moda."
His eyes shine. "She loves me! She loves me still! My God! I'm not going to lose her! I've got to get her back!
Aura Maria tells Bertha and Sofia that she contacted Betty at home, but that Betty said that under no circumstances should she let Armando know her whereabouts. And much less that she's with the Frenchman. Aura Maria jumps a mile when she hears Armando call her, demanding to know why she's not at her desk. Aura Maria thinks fast and says that Betty left her the task of looking for a notebook, but that she can't reach Betty because her cell phone is off. Armando demands the truth. Aura Maria manages not to blab, despite his threats. "Fine, fine" says Armando. I suppose that Betty is out on the town with the Frenchman and that those tears I saw were because you are so happy to see the him whisk her off to Cartagena!" He stalks off. Berta is upset that Armando thinks they are happy to see Betty go. Inesita says that Armando knows they are lying and he, with reason, considers the cuartel his worst enemy.
At home, Julia comes in to Betty's room saying that Michel is a doll. She asks if he's interested in Betty. Betty responds that Catalina thinks he is. With mixed emotions Julia asks if that means they've lost Betty forever. Embarrassed, Betty says it's not like she's going to marry him or anything. But Julia says that if Betty has already accepted moving to Cartagena, it's only logical that she has also accepted him - and it's to be expected since he's so handsome and such a gentleman. "And you deserve it, honey, it's like going from hell to heaven" says Julia. "I just didn't expect it to happen so soon." Betty again tells her she's not going to marry Michel and that he has promised them an apartment in Cartagena because he knows she wouldn't leave Bogota without them. Julia says that it will be difficult to convince Hermes. Betty says they'll have to see how he gets along with Michel.
Out in the living room, Hermes and Michel chat about Cartagena. Hermes is convinced that it's a party town, and that Betty lived it up while she was there. Michel assures him that Betty is a very serious woman, committed to her work. Hermes agrees, saying she's very responsible and that it's cost him and eye and a leg (eye of the face, literal) to educate her . He asks Michel how to say it in French. L'oeil de la tete, replies Michel. Hermes runs with it. Singing La Marseillaise, he escorts Michel over to Betty's diplomas. They continue their chat. Michel invites Hermes and Julia to visit Cartagena, offering to cover all the costs. "Ooh la la" says Hermes.
Back at Eco Moda, Patty wonders who will replace Betty as President if she leaves Eco Moda. Marcela says they'd have to see. Patty immediately says Marcela is the logical candidate and that she, Patty, would be her vice-president. After all, she did six semesters of finance at the San Marino. Exasperated, Marcela replies that Armando would be the most likely option. She says that since he thinks he's lost Beatriz to the Frenchman, by backing him for the presidency, he'd realize that she, Marcela, is the only one that still loves him and supports him
Out in the hall, the an anguished cuartel thinks that Armando considers them cruel and heartless. Armando approaches, yelling. They scatter like a bunch of chickens. He gestures to Aura Maria. She approaches him. Chin to chin, he warns her that unless she and her friends tell him where Betty is, he'll have to go to Betty's house and sit there until she comes home. Aura Maria gulps. Armando leaves, slamming the door. Inesita tells them that he's not crazy, he's just upset that Betty is leaving. The cuartel continues to insist that they can't fail Betty. Inesita leaves and goes into Armando's office without the cuartel seeing her.
In his office, Armando separates his love letters from the ones Mario wrote. Ines comes in. She tells him to try to calm down. Armado says that he must find Beatriz. Inesita tells him that she's at her house. Armando asks if she's with "him". Inesita nods. Armando slams his fist down on the desk. Inesita again insists he calm down. She advises him to keep his wits about him because he's at a disadvantage - that just one little mistake will ruin his chances. Armando doesn't know what to do. Inesita explains that the cuartel thinks that Michel is the best option for Betty, but that they don't want her to go. She tells him that she has a feeling that Armando's angst has more to it than just his concern for the firm and that is why she's telling him where to find Betty so he can talk to her. Relieved and hopeful, Armando promises that he won't disappoint her. He will bring Betty back to this company.
He exits his office clutching the black trash bag containing the cards. With renewed determination, he tells the cuartel that he will bring Betty back and that under no circumstances will he allow her to go to Cartagena. Patty looks on with interest as each of the cuartel pipes up and says how much they love Betty and that they can't imagine not having her around. That they want the best for Betty but that they don't want her to leave. Armando quietly swears that Betty will never leave.
After Inesita went to Armando's office to tell him that Betty went to her home, she told him also that Michele was with her. Armando began to have a controlled tantrum and Inesita counseled him to get a hold on his emotions and that he had too much to lose. She also declared to Armando that the cuartel really were not his enemies, just very good friends of Betty. They want only the best for her but can't stand the thought of losing her, and they all agree that the only person that could keep Betty in Ecomoda was Armando. She pleaded with him to go to Betty both for his sake and that of Ecomoda : "Vaya por ella, Doctor, vaya por ella!"
Madhu u r right I have seen the picture they are sitting on the grass and the backgnd is the beach and sea!!!😳
I hope I am right. I remember seeing Jassi in white salwaar kamees.
I might be wrong too...don't know
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