They had taken rooms on the ground floors or on the first storeys of the houses; hidden behind the shutters and keeping absolutely silent, they observed everything that went on in the apparently quite deserted street, and heard all that was said.
Gelak zeuzkaten alokatuta etxeetako beheko solairuetan edo lehenengo bizitzetan. Pertsianen atzean ezkutaturik, hantxe zelatariak, isil-isilik, kalean gertatzen ari zen guztiari beha eta han esandakoa entzuten, karrikak hutsik zirudien arren.