Doña Beatriz

I thought Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance was a great book.  I may have missed this while I was reading, but what was doña Beatriz doing for those decades while Noguerol was overseas?  The authors make it clear that she was pious, which, for women, was equated with honor at the time, and that she would not take another husband.  However, I wish the authors had delved more into her story.  While I felt sympathetic for doña Catalina and Noguerol since it seemed like they really had believed that their marriage was legitimate, I also felt really bad for doña Beatriz.  She had lived, according to the authors, piously for 22 years while her husband was overseas making a fortune, and yet she saw hardly any of that until the end of her life.  We saw when we read the Return of Martin Guerre how difficult it was for Bertrande to live while Martin Guerre had run off to fight for Spain, and how it was natural for her to want Martin replaced.  I also thought it was interesting how we saw similar rules about marriage in Martin Guerre, and how Bertrande's (supposed) honest belief that she was legally married was similar to Noguerol's.  However, I felt as though the authors in this book portrayed doña Beatriz in a somewhat negative light, as a nagging ex-wife.  Anyways, I would have liked to known more about doña Beatriz and more about how she had carried on with life while Noguerol was gone.