hat by marrying her, he will have ampleopportunities to spend with his real love. Tita cries bitter tears while making theirwedding cake, and the wedding guests are overcome with feelings of sadness andmemories of lost love when they eat the cake. Pedro and Rosaura live in the same houseas Tita and Mama Elena and even though no one speaks a word about it, it is obviousto all that Pedro does not love Rosaura his wife, he only love Tita. Constantly forbiddenand scolded by Mama Elena, Tita is once again forced to supress her feelings for Pedrothat are now to Tita, bigger than life. Although now, from the incident with the weddingcake Tita realizes that she is able to send her love and passion to Pedro through thefood she cooks. On one occasion, Tita makes a dish using roses Muzquiz gave her, andher dinner guests all become sexually aroused. Her sister Gertrudis becomes so arousedthat she catches afire, then runs off with a revolutionary. Caught up in the suspicion of his marriage intentions, Pedro finally after 3months concemates his marriage between him and Rosaura and in this they have theirfirst child, Nicholas. Sicken by a harsh labor, Rosaura is unable to tend to her child andTita is forced to care for the newborn, including breast feeding. Mama Elena is onceagain agitated by Tita and Pedro love and passion for one another that she suggeststhat Pedro and Rosaura move to San Antonio where they will be closer to the doctors. Not long after their relocation, word gets back to the family ranch that Nicholas has dieddue to starvation and illness because he would not eat. Tita is devastated by this andgoes into a spell of insaneness and is sent away to a hospital where she meets andromantically connects with the doctor. Tita returns to the ranch after the tragic death ofher mother and just in enough time to deliver Rosaura and Pedros second child,Esperanza. This time Rosauras labor was worse than before and the doctor informsPed...
