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Scene 1: Aninha is a poor girl who had some good luck and now owns the chocolate factory in the town; Bernardete enters with a football; Bernardete starts to explain how she doesn't feel like the other girls -- she has strange feelings, Aninha is sympathetic but just as Bernardete is about to say what the problem is, Mocinha comes in and Bernardete runs out of the room.

Scene 2: Bernardete is in the young boy Tonhito's bedroom, and she is playing more roughly than a girl is expected to. Aninha comes in, and the previous conversation is resumed, but once again Mocinha breaks the whole thing up. Bernardete does say that when she goes out into the street, people stare at her and she feels uncomfortable.

Scene 3: Bernardete is with Mocinha (who is a sort of housekeeper for Aninha). Bernardete asks if it is all right for girls and women to pee standing up; she finds it easier to do so. Mocinha freaks out at this and tells Bernardete never to do it that way.

Scene 4: Aninha and Tonhito return from walking the dog, and go upstairs. Mocinha is left in the room when Bernardete enters with a football and throws it to Mocinha; Bernardete says Mocinha makes a good goalkeeper, and encourages Mocinha to kick the ball; but when she does so she breaks some furniture with a badly aimed kick.

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Scene 1: Bernardete is doing some darning, and expresses her feelings by trying to startle the boy Tonhito.

Scene 2: Marcia arrives and is greeted by Mocinha, with Bernardete, Tonhito and the maid Candida looking on. The womenfolk are going on about how lovely Marcia looks and the forthcoming wedding; Bernardete breaks the mood with a rude remark, and this only draws Marcia's attention to her -- "How pretty you are!" But in admiring Bernardete's elaborate hairstyle, Marcia notices and pointedly remarks on the fact that Bernardete has a hairy upper lip. Candida intervenes surprisingly strongly in Bernardete's defence.

Scene 3: Bernardete is feeling the heat and is wafting fresh air with her skirt. Epimanondas, the butler, mentions that Mocinha is looking out of the window for the tenth time. "Yes," she says, "I am rather preoccupied." "Yes you are", volunteers Bernardete; "why don't you have a bath? If you like I could help you change." Mocinha doesn't want that, and then Jezebel arrives. Jezebel is supposedly Bernardete's Mother, and she is the manager of the chocolate factory, a rich and powerful woman, but also a selfish and spiteful one. Bernardete manages a joke at her expense; "How I suffer", she says.

Scene 4: Bernardete is sprawling on the bed; Jezebel comes in, and Bernardete says she doesn't like to go out because people stare at her as if she was strange. Jezebel asks her what it is that she thinks is wrong with her, as Mocinha has told her about the previous questions. Bernardete says she has strange feelings of heat -- (or sexual excitement -- the word is "caliente") under her skirt. "Have you got a fever?" "No, it's not a fever; it's like a fire, under my dress." Jezebel doesn't properly understand, and lapses into a reverie of her own sexual excitement, but the scene ends with Bernardete as confused as ever.

Back in the sitting room, Bernardete is being pressed by Mocinha to go to the doctor about the strange feelings, but Candida doesn't want this, and Bernardete says she refuses to go to the doctor. Mocinha says she will consult the priest.

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Scene 1: Mocinha has taken Bernardete to the church to see the priest; he takes Bernardete through to the sacristy and pointedly asks Mocinha to remain behind to reflect on her sins. But now we learn that it is Candida, the maid at Jezebel's house, who saw to Bernardete's clothes, and washed her when she was little. Bernardete says she doesn't feel comfortable as a girl; in fact she doesn't like wearing skirts. "Does the priest like wearing dresses? In fact is he naked under the cassock? But can Bernardete ask another little question? Is it all right to pee standing up? It seems much easier." The priest freaks out and runs out of the room.

Scene 2: Jezebel, Candida, Epimanondas, the little servant girl and Bernardete are in their nightclothes; they have been watching Aninha and her fiancé Danilo, who are romantically dancing alone outside. Epimanondas says that one day, Bernardete will know all about matters of love, and Bernardete angrily stamps on his foot. Everyone thinks it is pleasing except Jezebel who is spitefully resentful.

Bernardete is now alone with Jezebel, and Bernardete wants to know what a man and a woman do when they are alone. "Is it connected with the strange feelings down below that I have been experiencing?" But no-one will ever answer her, and neither will Jezebel now. Bernardete presses the point, and Jezebel momentarily softens, imagining her own amorous times, but she quickly hardens again and chases Bernardete out of the room.

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Scene 1: The young woman Selina is visiting, and Mocinha encourages Bernardete to talk to her. Bernardete is tongue-tied, and eventually comments on Selina's bust, saying that it is better developed than Bernardete's own. Mocinha is scandalised, but Epimanondas agrees that it is an interesting topic. Selina tries to make a supportive remark that Bernardete's own bust will soon develop, and for a moment Bernardete looks pleased, but then suddenly loses her temper and tells Selina never, never to talk about that.

Scene 2: Jezebel is applying face cream in her bedroom, and Bernardete asks her what is going on outside. "Is it thieves?" "No it's just Danilo who hopes to woo Aninha" Jezebel is jealously furious. But she starts to tell Bernardete about what young men and young women get up to. This goes on for some time, until Bernardete says, "I would rather play football, Mama.", and Jezebel gets even angrier. Football is a pastime for boys. But Bernardete has a suggestion to stop Danilo: "Why not do the same as you do to amorous cats?" "What a good idea!"

Scene 3: In the kitchen, everyone has to lend a hand filling a bowl with water; they carry it through to the window and pour it over Danilo, and everyone laughs at his discomfort.

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