I lend about La Beata in all good quarters, and always hear golden opinions from all sorts of people.

The whole catastrophe is determined by Rosmer's inability to accept without proof Rebecca's declaration that Rosmersholm has "ennobled" her, and that she is no longer the same woman whose relentless egoism drove Beata into the mill-race.

[Note 3: Xaragua includes the entire western coast from Cape Tiburon to the island of Beata on the south.]