Andrada Estate is both a construction site and a place of uneasy personal encounters for Bea. While she supervises work on the house, the estate’s garden and terrace become the setting for her strained dealings with Diego’s family, an unexpected visit from Víctor, and a confrontation Irene intends to pursue there.

The Estate and the Construction Work

After a painful conversation with Diego, Bea returns to Andrada Estate uncertain whether she still has the right to be there. She keeps her distress out of sight and concentrates on supervising the construction professionally, trying to advance the work so that she will not need to appear every day. Diego is absent throughout that first day back, leaving Bea to carry on at the site without him.

The estate’s building work is presented through practical decisions as well as personal tension. On a later visit, Bea is in the middle of an argument with a builder over insulation: the crew has brought the wrong material for installation between the timbers, and she is trying to find a solution. The work demands her attention even when her private life threatens to overwhelm it.

A Site Under Watch

During Bea’s return to work, Diego’s mother-in-law watches her for hours from the terrace in her wheelchair. She even uses binoculars to keep Bea under observation. In mid-afternoon, one of her caregivers conveys her expectation that construction will not take too long; Bea replies that the crew is moving as quickly as it can. The exchange makes the estate feel less like a neutral workplace than a place where Bea’s presence and the project’s progress are being monitored.

Bea continues to fear encountering the older woman whenever she enters the garden. She worries that she might be threatened again or that private information could reach Ingrid. Although Diego believes his mother-in-law would not interfere, Bea distrusts that reassurance because she knows a darker side of her. She briefly considers winning the woman over with a gift chosen around her tastes, then rejects the idea: instead, she resolves to keep a low profile until the house is finished and leave.

Diego is rarely at the construction site during this period. He is working to persuade Emerge and to limit the damage caused by newspaper articles, and when he and Bea do meet, their manner is cordial but distant. The estate therefore holds together two pressures on the project: the physical task of completing the house and the increasingly strained relations surrounding it.

Encounters and Confrontation

The estate also becomes the place where Bea’s former relationship intrudes on her working life. While she is dealing with the insulation problem, Ingrid arrives accompanied by Víctor. Bea is astonished by his presence, which seems to her out of place, as though he has entered a story that does not belong to him. Ingrid explains that Víctor had urgently sought Bea at the studio and that she had not known Bea had a boyfriend and was about to marry. The worksite thus brings Bea’s concealed or newly disclosed personal circumstances into the open before a colleague.

Later, Irene announces that she is going to Andrada Estate to work out how to face the situation and confronts Bea’s offer to accompany her by telling her to stay behind, since she has already caused enough trouble. The exchange places the estate once more at the center of an unsettled conflict, but the available account does not specify what Irene intends to do there. Across these episodes, the estate’s significance lies in its double function: it is a real workplace requiring Bea’s professional judgment, and a shared family space where watchfulness, private history, and public pressures follow her into the garden and onto the building site.