He made what apology he could and hurried home, overjoyed that the satisfaction of his curiosity had preserved their love intact, and that, having feigned for so long, when in Odette's company, a sort of indifference, he had not now, by a demonstration of jealousy, given her that proof of the excess of his own passion which, in a pair of lovers, fully and finally dispenses the recipient from the obligation to love the other enough.
Desenkusaka urrundu zen bertatik eta etxera itzuli, pozik jakin-mina ase izanak amodioa bere hartan utzia zuelako, eta pozik, aspaldidanik Odetterengana nolabaiteko axolagabezia itxuratu ondoren, oraingoan ez ziolako gehiegi maite zuelako froga emana, froga bat, bi maitaleren artean, jasotzen duenari behin betiko baimena ematen diona bestea aurrerantzean aski ere ez maitatzeko.