Inasmuch as nothing of this sort had ever occurred, though indeed she must often have pondered the success of such a manoeuvre as she lay alone absorbed in her interminable games of patience (and though it must have plunged her in despair from the first moment of its realisation, from the first of those little unforeseen facts, the first word of calamitous news, whose accents can never afterwards be expunged from the memory, everything that bears upon it the imprint of actual, physical death, so terribly different from the logical abstraction of its possibility) she would fall back from time to time, to add an interest to her life, upon imagining other, minor catastrophes, which she would follow up with passion.
Inoiz gertatu ez zenez, ordea, halako jazoerarik, zeinen balizko arrakastaz berak hamaika amets-gogoeta eginak izango baitzituzkeen, ezbairik gabe, bere ezin konta ahala karta-joko bakartietan ohi ziharduenean (halakoen gauzatzearen hasierak, horratik, galanki aztoratuko zukeen arren, gertakari ustekabeko horien edozein lehen xehetasunek alegia, albiste txarraren berri ematen digun eta beraren doinua inoiz ahantzi ezin izaten dugun lehen hitzak, adibidez, heriotzaren ahalgarritasun logiko eta abstraktutik askoz honantzago, benetako heriotzaren oinatza dakarkigulako mezulari), halakorik sekula gertatu ez zenez, beraz, nola edo hala aski irizten zion noizbehinka, bere bizitzari interesa gehitzearren, beronetan fantasiazko hainbat peripezia txertatzeari, eta berauei irrikaz jarraitzeari.