(If he knew tolerably well how to unbutton women's blouses, he himself would undress in front of them with bashful haste.) This time, however, he didn't for a long time dare to undo her first button (it seemed to him that in the matter of beginning to undress there must exist some tasteful and elegant procedure, which only men who were experts knew, and he was afraid of betraying his inexperience), so that in the end she herself stood up and, asking with a smile, said:
(Baldin eta emakumeei brusak askatzen nola edo hala bazekien ere, presa lotsagarrian eranzten zen haien aurrean). Aldi hartan, ordea, kosta egin zitzaion lehenengo botoia askatzen ausartzea (eranzten hastean gizon iaioek bakarrik ezagutzen duten prozedura sotil eta dotoreren batek egon behar zuela iruditu zitzaion; eta beldur zen bere eskarmenturik eza nabarituko ote zen), eta beraz emakumeak, azkenean, jaiki eta, irribarrez, galdetu zion: