The feeling, at once vague and acute in them, of all those months of life lost to their love, made them in some confused way demand a sort of compensation through which the time of joy would have passed at only half the speed of the time of waiting.
Beren maitasunarentzat galdutako bizitzaren hilabeteen sentipenak, aldi berean lausoa eta zorrotza, modu nahasgarriz nolabaiteko ordaina exijitzera bultzatzen zien, hau da, alaitasunerako denbora itxarotearena baino bi aldiz mantsoago igaro zedila.