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Back in Triana after Christmas in Oaxaca, Sarah pays her debt on the day of the Three Kings - and bites into the bean again.

Sarah asks the director of the school of midwives what it would take to stay in Spain and work as a midwife - and the answer involves a ministry, months of waiting and a national exam.

Sarah goes to a government office to have her title recognised, and finds herself in the oldest trap in Spanish paperwork - to get one document she needs another, and for that one, the first.

On a cold January night, on the roof where they once chose where to get married, Sarah and Julian make a bigger decision - whether to stay in Seville.

Two days after deciding to stay, Sarah finally calls Boston to tell her parents, and needs every gentle word Spanish has - it's not that I don't want to come back, it's that I'm happy here, don't take it the wrong way, it's nothing against you.

Curro comes back from three weeks in Boston with Emily's family, and tells the bar about it the way Spaniards tell everything - with enormous exaggeration - until a message from Emily sets the record straight.

Encarna turns seventy-eight, and the whole street crowds into her patio with a cake, two candles shaped like a seven and an eight, and a lot of compliments she pretends not to want.

On a rainy Saturday, Encarna gives Sarah a proper lesson in the Spanish of Seville - the words, the sounds that go missing, and an expression that sounds like no but means yes, a thousand times.

Two days before the end of her exchange, Sarah covers a night shift on the maternity ward, and she's in charge, with Nerea, when three women go into labour at once.

On Tuesday, February 27th, the school of midwives gives Sarah her certificate for the exchange, and everyone knows she isn't going anywhere.

In March, Sarah starts studying for the national exam in earnest, with Nerea, in the university library - and it's not going well.

Julian and Professor Ortega handed in The Nun and the Widow on Monday.