Lalumfa, if I remember rightly, was a local magistrate, a Sicilian of about fifty, terribly thin, with a shock of grey hair, and, as soon as he noticed me standing on the pedals of my bicycle, holding on to the bars of the gate with both hands, and peering into the garden, he put down the rubber hose with which he was watering the flower-beds.
Nitaz ohartu zen bezain azkar, artean bizikletatik jaitsi gabe nengoela eta hesi-ateko burdinbarretara helduta bi eskuekin, lorategi barrukoa ikusmiratzen, lurrera erortzen utzi zuen loresailak ureztatzeko erabiltzen ari zen gomazko hodia. -Zer nahi duzu?