The door was opened, when he had knocked a second time, by a small fair-haired girl in a shimmering yellow dressing-gown-a small girl whose face was white and dim and who clung desperately to the inner doorknob with both hands and gasped:
Bigarren aldiz jo zuenean, albornoz hori distiratsua soinean zuen neska ilehori batek ireki zion atea. Neska txiki bat zen, aurpegi zuri eta hitsekoa, bi eskuak atearen barruko heldulekuari nekez eutsiz arnasestuka mintzatu zena: