The bottle of cognac (which he had inadvertently asked for on his first visit and which was now hurried to the table with such menacing readiness), the four walls of the studio apartment (creating a space that was becoming ever more constricting and confining), the directress's monologue (focusing on subjects ever more personal), her gaze (dangerously fixed on him), all this caused the change of program to begin finally to get to him;
(Aurreko bisitan zuhurgabeki eskatu zuen eta oraingoan adeitasun mehatxugarriz mahai gainean agertutako) koinaka botila, apartamenduaren lau hormak (gero eta estuagoa, gero eta itxiagoa zirudien espazio bat osatuz), zuzendariaren bakar-hizketa (gero eta gai pertsonalagoetan sartua), haren begirada (arriskugarriro tinkoa), hori guztia zela-eta, ikuskizunaren aldaketa iristen hasi zitzaion azkenik: