The first set of documents to be submitted were being worked on but still not ready, which usually turned out to be a great advantage the next time K. went to see him as the earlier occasion would have been a very bad time to put them in, which they could not then have known.
Beti lehen eskari harekin ari zen, baina inoiz bukatu gabe, eta gehienetan hala hobe izan zela agertzen zion hurrengo bisitan, zeren azken aldi hartan aurkeztu balute kalterako izango baitzen, aurrez igarri ezin zitekeen gauza.