She is a daughter of a general Ilario Penalver and dona Augusta Curiel. Matilde is a beautiful, clever girl with sociable and cheerful nature. She was brought up in Catholic belief and according to morals of the epoch in which she lives. Matilde cares of well-being of the family and adores her father. As each senorita from an aristocratic class she has good manners: she can embroider, draw, play a piano a little, dance. But her most favourite pastime is gardening. Matilde respects her parents, but also she has her character. She falls in love with Adolfo Solis, a militarian without an inheritance, but, because of intrigues and family pressure Matilde marries Manuel Fuentes Guerra, a rich land owner.