But what struck me most, from that first evening on, was definitely the dining-room itself: with its art nouveau furniture in reddish wood, its huge fireplace with a sinuous, curved, almost human mouth, its walls covered in leather, except for one entirely of glass that opened on to the dark storm in the park like the porthole of the Nautilus:
Baina lehen gau hartatik atentzioa gehien eman zidana, zalantzarik gabe, jangela bera izan zen, zur gorrixkaz eginiko altzari lore-estilokoekin, ia giza-ahoa zirudien tximinia aho makur eta bihurrikoarekin, larruz forratutako paretekin-bat izan ezik: osorik kristalezkoa, parkeko ekaitz isila enkuadratzen zuena Nautiluseko idibegi baten antzera-: