Note 40.3 — Front matter

en vías de arreglo, in a way of being settled. The plural is sometimes used with a force apparently singular, but more general or indefinite. Here the idea is perhaps "in one of a number of possible ways." Cf. al fin del mes, "at the end of the month," a fines del mes, "about the end of the month" (during the last days of the month?). In the conventional forms of greeting, buenos días, etc., the fundamental idea is, according to Foerster, Spanische Sprachlehre, page 275, to extend the greeting to subsequent meetings.