Immediately the last clang had died away Maimie distinctly heard a voice say, 'So that's all right.' It had a wooden sound and seemed to come from above, and she looked up in time to see an elm-tree stretching out its arms and yawning.
"Ez nekien hitz egiten zenekienik!" esateko puntuan egon zen, putzuko ontzitik zetorrela zirudien ahots metaliko batek zera galdetu zionean zumarrari: "Hotz apur bat egingo du hor goian, ezta?", eta zumarrak erantzun zuen: