Both admire his mother's beauty. Her grandmother begins to reveal aspects of her mother's past and nagging feelings grow stronger. Inca explains to her that she is very similar to her mother. He tells her why he had to send his mother to New York; she too had fallen in love with the wrong man. At the end of this story, we see Lola go through this internal change. I think the author did this to show that perhaps Lola couldn't understand her mother because there were many things about her that she didn't know and that their story was very similar. We no longer see the conversation; so we don't see if this revelation serves any purpose, but I would like to believe it