The two friars, Father Damaso and Sibilya, verbally spar with one another for the seat at the head table. Wherein at the end Father Siblya wins the seat.
“Lieutenant, here we are in the world, not in the church. Here the seat is yours.”
"It's okay, you can take it."
Captain Tiago ordered to served the Tinola which contain chicken, with white squash and broth. Father Damaso get the undesirable part of the chicken.
Ibarra says he must go, reassuring Tiago that he will return the next day before going to San Diego.
"Why did I only get the neck and wing part of the chicken?!"
The guest turn their attention to Ibarra and ask him about his stay in Europe.
How was your studies in Europe?
“That’s it? It doesn’t seem worth it to waste all that money just to find out such an insignificant thing. Any schoolboy knows that.”
“a people’s prosperity or misery [lies] in direct proportion to its freedoms or its inhibitions and, along the same lines, of the sacrifice or selfishness of its ancestors.”
Instead of arguing with friar, Ibarra left from the crowd, Captain Tiago tried to stop him
"I must leave."
"Don't leave yet, Maria Clara will arrive soon"
"I must go, but I will return tomorrow"
Later that evening, the young blond man writes about the party in his journal: how tinola can ruin a feast and why should Indio should not be allowed to read or travel outside the Philippines.
