She asked me in, and sat me down in an armchair, and then stood before me and told me she was from Ferrara, "thoroughbred Ferrarese", and knew my family very well, and my mother ("your Mummy") in particular, since "something like forty years ago"-and as she spoke she smiled, and sweetly lowered her eyelids again-they had been friends at the Regina Elena primary school, the one beside the church of San Giuseppe, in via Carlo Mayr.
Barrura sartu eta sofa batean esertzera gonbidatu ninduen, eta gero, nire aurrean zutik jarraitzen zuela, kontatzen hasi zitzaidan bera ferraratarra zela, "ferraratar petoa", nire familia oso ondo ezagutzen zuela, bai eta ama ere, "zure ama batez ere", haren klaselaguna izan baitzen, "duela berrogei urte inguru" (irribarre egin eta betazalak eztiki jaitsi zituen berriz, hori esatean), Regina Elena eskola elementalean, San Giuseppe eliza ondokoan, Carlo Mayr kalean. Zer moduz zegoen ama?