As a final blow, nothing would content my advisers, Strakencz and the Chancellor (who came out from Strelsau to make an urgent representation to me), save that I should appoint a day for the public solemnization of my betrothal, a ceremony which in Ruritania is well nigh as binding and great a thing as the marriage itself.
Eta azken arazoa zen ez zirudiela ezerk lasaitzen zituenik nire aholkulariak, Strakencz eta kantzilerra (zeinak Strelsauetik etorri baitziren gai larri bat tratatzera), ez bazen egun bat jarri behar nuela ezkontza konpromezuaren ospakizunerako, Ruritanian ezkontza bezain ospakizun handia, eta hura bezain konprometigarria gainera.