 Fearing death is near, he orders Basilio, his mute servant, to search for Adriana, his daughter, and leave her his fortune.Neither Esteban nor Basilio know what Adriana looks like.When Basilio asks the girl's mother, Beatriz Ayala, now married to Salvador Asensio, one of Gomez's ministers, about the girl, she lies to him that her daughter died in childbirth, or at least that is what her parents told her.