What happened there?" He remembered the gas-jets that were being extinguished along the Boulevard des Italiens when he had met her, when all hope was gone among the errant shades upon that night which had seemed to him almost supernatural and which now (that night of a period when he had not even to ask himself whether he would be annoying her by looking for her and by finding her, so certain was he that she knew no greater happiness than to see him and to let him take her home) belonged indeed to a mysterious world to which one never may return again once its doors are closed.
Zer gertatu ote da han?" Gogoratu zituen Italiarren bulebarrean itzaltzen ari zirèn gas-farola haiek, gau hartan, esperantza ororen kontra topatu zuenean Odette, itzal alderrai haien guztien artean, gau ia naturaz gaindikoa iruditua zitzaiòn eta beharbada izan ere halakoxea izan zenekoan-garai bateko gaua baitzen, zeinean bere buruari galdetu beharrik ere ez baitzuen ea gaitzitu egingo ote zitzaion Odetteri haren bila ibiltzea, harekin topo egitea, ziur baitzen ezen poza besterik ezin senti zezakeela Odettek bera ikustean, berarekin etxeratzean-, gau bat, nolanahi ere, mundu misteriotsu bati zetxekiona, hango ateak itxiak izan ondoren bertara inor ezin itzul daitekeena.