That precision would haunt me for many years, because Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him, and that day he repeated it to me as we went into the church.
Xehetasun hori burutik ezin kendurik ibili nintzen luzaz, Santiago Nasar-ek maiz-maiz esanik baitzidan leku itxian sarturiko lore usainak bat batean heriotza zekarkiola gogora, eta egun hartan ere elizan sartzean hori bera esan zidan.