When she assured me (as sometimes happened) that she liked me less than some other of her friends, less than she had liked me the day before, because by my clumsiness I had made her side lose a game, I would beg her pardon, I would beg her to tell me what I must do in order that she should begin again to like me as much as, or more than the rest; I hoped to hear her say that that was already my position;
Hark, zenbaitetan, ziurtatzen zidanean ezen gutxiago maite ninduela bere beste ez dakit zein lagun baino, eta are gutxiago bezperan maite ninduena baino, nire moldakaizkeriaren baten erruz partida galarazia niolako, nik orduan barkamena eskatzen nion, eta galdetzen nion ea zer egin behar nuen atzera berriz ni maitatzen has zedin, besteak baino gehiago maita nintzan;