NMT Chapter 28: Nightfall (See other Noli Me Tangere Chapter Summaries)
(Napanuod mo na ba yung kwento ni Pareng Ed, isang masipag at matiyagang OFW na naubos ang pera nung na-ospital ang kanyang anak, pero nakabangon mula sa kahirapan gamit ang isang… panuorin mo ang kwento niya dito.)
Manila newspapers talk about the good things Ibarra has done and urge people to emulate him. In an attempt to be like Ibarra, Capitan Tiago planned to finance (all by himself) the building of a convent. Maria Clara asks permission to go out with her girlfriends, along with Ibarra. Capitan Tiago asks her to come home early because Padre Damaso was coming to their house for an early dinner.
Capitan Tiago wanted Ibarra to settle his differences with Padre Damaso (supposedly over dinner), but Ibarra said that he was needed at his house because he was expecting (hah!) a visitor.
Anyway, getting back to Maria Clara’s “outing” with her friends, she was of course chaperoned by Tia Isabel. They also pass by the house of Sinang (child of Capitan Basilio) to invite her out as well.
The group passes by the convent (Padre Damaso is there). They also see the house of the alferes. Sinang jokes that Padre Salvi should be the husband of Doña Consolacion.
They see a leper (ketongin). Maria Clara, moved by compassion, gives the leper a locket (given by Capitan Tiago) which contains a religious relic (agnos) — a piece of wood from the boat which Jesus rode thousands of years ago.
The leper tearfully kisses the ground on which Maria Clara trod. Maria Clara also weeps a bit. She sees the insane Sisa walking around and Ibarra promises to help Sisa. The chapter ends with the group returning home.
