I am sure we must be running short." Perhaps he had persuaded himself that, if Rémi had at last found Odette in some café, where she was waiting for him still, then his night of misery was already obliterated by the realisation, begun already in his mind, of a night of joy, and that there was no need for him to hasten towards the attainment of a happiness already captured and held in a safe place, which would not escape his grasp again.
Beharbada bere artean pentsatuz ezen, baldin Rémik Odette idoroa bazuen eta berau kafetegiren batean beraren zain baldin bazegoen, zorionekoaren egikaritze hasi berriak jadanik suntsitua zuela zorigaiztoko arrats-bukaera, eta ez zeukala, beraz, zoriontasun atzitu eta leku seguruan hesitu hura atzemateko inolako presarik, ez baitzion ihes egingo.