He had a feeling that it was his duty, so long as the Baroness looked at him, smiling in that way, to meet her glance with his own scrupulously adjusted, consciously frigid organs of vision; but on this occasion he failed to perform his duty to the last.
Pentsatu zuen ezen, baronesak halako irribarrez begiratzen bazion, berak ikusmenaren organoak berariazko hoztasunera zehazki doiturik begiratu behar ziola. Baina oraingo honetan ezin izan zuen bere egitekoa azkeneraino bete.