At the end of act 1, a boy, the son of the grocer, comes to Teresa's door to let her know that they are willing to sell her the stray Siamese cat who wandered into their shop.
Lorenzo Del Monte is Teresa's husband. They were married and lived together for five years and have been legally separated for one year. When he and Teresa first met, he was thirty years old. Lorenzo has a degree in engineering, but he does not have a job because he comes from a very wealthy family and does not need to work. However, when Teresa first met him, he was living like a poor university student, wearing the same old clothes every day. Their first three days together were spent in Teresa's apartment doing.....
