The Wedding

He was the first man who Fermina Daza heard urinating. She heard him on their wedding night in the cabin of the boat that was taking them to France, while overcome by seasickness, and the sound of his horse-like cascade seemed to her to be so potent and invested with so much authority, that it added to her terror for the destruction that she feared. That memory frequently came back to her, at the same time as the cascade grew weaker as the years went by, because she could never resign herself to the fact that he would leave the edge of the bowl wet every time he used it.

 

Love in the Time of Cholera