He gained strength through familiarity with the thought that the emergency exit stood always open, and became curious, too, to taste his suffering to the dregs. If it went too badly with him he could feel sometimes with a grim malicious pleasure:
Azken irtenbide hori beti irekita zeukala sarri pentsatzeak indar eman zion, atsekabeak eta egoera txarrak dastatzeko jakin-mina erantsi zion, eta benetan gauzak gaizki zihoazkionean, poz garratz bat, kalte poz moduko bat soma zezakeen: