The beginning of the pregnancy
María, who is in love with Samuel, is frustrated because he will not give up his priesthood and his vow of chastity. So María goes to a village party on her day off and gets drunk.
After a while of the party, María begins to avoid Samuel, her impossible love. Samuel wonders about María's strange behavior, and gets her to tell him her big secret.
"I'm pregnant."
Samuel wonders how María can be pregnant, since they have never slept together.
"I made a mistake, I am human and a sinner," María admits. It all happened that night, when she attended a local festival. "I wanted to have fun and forget everything. I ran into a young man I already knew. There had never been anything between us because he's a ladies' man and doesn't take women seriously. He bought me an anise liqueur, we danced, and what happened, happened..."
María soon tells Pia her sinful secret.
"I am a bad person. I have made up my mind not to have a baby. I am poor and almost illiterate, and I live on a job that I will be fired from as soon as my belly starts to show. I have no savings, I have no house, I have no one to support me. I have nothing to offer this child."
María tries to keep the pregnancy a secret because she fears the consequences. Pregnancy outside of marriage is not accepted within the rules and social norms of the estate.
But María's behavior begins to arouse suspicion. An illegitimate pregnancy jeopardizes her job and reputation, causing her constant stress and worry.
Will María keep the child? And who is the father of Maria's child? That will be revealed in the upcoming spoilers of La Promesa.
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