But he was so shy in approaching her that, after this evening which had begun by his arranging her cattleyas and had ended in her complete surrender, whether from fear of chilling her, or from reluctance to appear, even retrospectively, to have lied, or perhaps because he lacked the audacity to formulate a more urgent requirement than this (which could always be repeated, since it had not annoyed her on the first occasion), he resorted to the same pretext on the following days. If she had any cattleyas pinned to her bodice, he would say:
Baina hain herabea zen gizona non, arrats hartan amodio-jabetza emakumearen catleyak apailatzen hasita burutua zuenez gero, zela berari gaitzitu-lotsaz, zela geroko ikuspegitik lehenago gezurretan ibili izanaren itxura eman-beldurrez, zela aski ausardiarik ez zuelako hura baino eskakizun handiagorik adierazteko (azken finean, amarru hura estreinako aldian Odetterentzat haserrebide gertatua ez zenez, errepika baitzezakeen), kontua baita, hurrengo egunetan ere, aitzakia berbera erabili zuela.