A single word from Mamma would have been an admission that further intercourse with me was within the bounds of possibility, and that might perhaps have appeared to me more terrible still, as indicating that, with such a punishment as was in store for me, mere silence, and even anger, were relatively puerile.
Amak hitz egin izan balit, nirekin berriro mintzatzea oraindik zilegi zela onartzearen seinale izango zatekeen, eta hori beharbada are izugarriagoa irudituko zitzaidakeen, hots, gainera zetorkidàn zigor gogorraren aurrean, larderiaz mintzatu beharra zegoela adieraziko zukeena, isiltasunak nahiz haserreak umekeria huts gisa alde batera utzirik.