Summary

Adam continues to spend time with Teresa, recreating casually while also drawing some anticipation that their relationship will naturally evolve into a romantic one. At the same time his romantic relationship with Isabel grows more and more routinized and steady. His blossoming friendship with Teresa prompts Adam to confess to her that he lied about his mother being dead. Adam works up the nerve to do this after the two watch Citizen Kane together. Teresa is largely unperturbed by this confession, reacting with equanimous curiosity. She betrays no sign of feeling hurt or manipulated. This irks Adam, who takes it as a sign of his insignificance in her eyes. He uses the same excuse that he honed on Rufina and Isabel, claiming that his mother is ill and his lie about her death was a way of his bringing himself to face up to...