She strove to force a smile as she pressed the colonel to come to table, and suggested twenty plausible reasons, which she herself demolished within an instant, to account for her brother's delay.
Irribarre egiten saiatu zen, koronelari eser zedila eskatu zion, eta anaia berandu zergatik zetorren argitzeko hogei aitzakia bururatu zitzaizkion, baina une batez berak banaka-banaka denak alboratu zituen.