After having sexual intercourse with his lover Adelaide, Adelaide's family demanded Ernesto Balmaceda become engaged to Adelaide, a request Ernesto unhappily accepted.
Soon after his arrival, Balmaceda started to court Adelaide and shortly thereafter, the parents of the bride-to-be found out that the young couple already had had sexual intercourse. They then demanded that 19-year-old Ernesto become engaged to Adelaide and "redress the wrong done" to her. He admitted his error and accepted the engagement for the time being. Balmaceda did not want to get married, so he wrote to his family to have himself immediately transferred to another embassy. 
