But she had already recognized him from a distance, and coming toward him she gave him that gentle smile of hers; only at the last moment, when they had almost passed each other, did the smile ring a bell in his memory and snap him out of his drowsy state.
Ordea, emakumeak urrundik ezagutu zuen, eta, harengana inguratuz, irribarre arin batekin jarri zitzaion begira. Irribarre horrek, azken momentuan, elkarrengandik urruntzen hasiak zirela, martxan jarri zuen gizonaren memoriaren seinale-sistema, soraiotasunetik erauzi zuen arte.