She will flirt with you to her heart's content, and, in two years' time, she will marry a monster, in obedience to her mother, and will assure herself that she is unhappy, that she has loved only one man-that is to say, you-but that Heaven was not willing to unite her to him because he wore a soldier's cloak, although beneath that thick, grey cloak beat a heart, passionate and noble"...
asebeterik gelditu arte arituko duk hirekin maitakerietan, eta pare bat urte geroago munstroren batekin ezkonduko duk, amatxoren nahiei otzanki men eginik, eta bere buruari sinetsarazten hasiko duk zorigaiztokoa dela, berak gizon bakarra maite izan duela-hi alegia-, baina zeruak ez duela gizon horrekin elkartu nahi izan, soldadu-longaina janzten duelako, nahiz eta longain gris zatar horren azpian bihotz sutsu eta zintzoa pilpiratzen den...