But ask Eva. She’ll tell you the truth.
And she nurses them.
The legend says she was a real nurse named Eulalia. Beautiful. Proud. In love with a reckless doctor who broke her heart. One night, a gravely ill man was admitted—a man who reminded her of her lost love. Distracted, bitter, she neglected him. By morning, he was dead. Not from his illness, but from a simple bed sore that had turned to sepsis. A nurse’s sin: carelessness .
"There was a woman," Don José whispered. "Very clean. Very neat. She smelled like soap and old flowers."