I could not bring myself to let her go out of reach of me while I felt that in a few minutes I should have to leave her in the dining-room and go up to my bed without the consoling thought, as on ordinary evenings, that she would come up, later, to kiss me.
ezin nuen etsi harengandik urrun ezta pauso batera ere, pentsatuz laster utzi beharko nuela jantokian eta neure gelara igo, beste arratsetan ez bezala, hura niri muxu ematera etortzearen kontsolamendurik gabe.