She always put in a funny anecdote about somebody they knew in the village, just so Dickie wouldn't think she was eating her heart out for him, though obviously she was, and obviously she wasn't going to leave for the States in February without making another desperate try for him in person, Tom thought, hence the investments of the long letters and the knitted socks and muffler which Tom knew were coming, even though he hadn't replied to her letters.
Herriko ezagunen bati buruzko pasadizo xelebreren bat gehitzen zuen beti, Dickiek pentsa ez zezan jota zegoela beragatik, nahiz bistakoa izan halaxe zegoela, eta bistakoa izan, era berean, otsailean ez zela Estatu Batuetara itzuliko bera ikusteko beste ahalegin bat egin gabe etsi-etsian. Horregatik saiatzen zen horrenbeste bere eskutitz luze haiekin eta inondik ere heltzear zeuden galtzerdi eta bufanda eta abarrekin, nahiz Tomek inoiz erantzun ez.