I was led by this to imagine that they fancied us to have been jesting when we asked them to converse with the youth, and that this made them jest and play, and being under this impression, I was the more decided in saying that we were in profound earnest.
Eta orduan ni konturatu nintzen, lehenago mutilarekin hitz egiteko eskatu genienean, jolasean ari ginela pentsatu zutela, eta horregatik jolastu zutela beraiek ere eta ez zirela serio aritu.