That is what I asked myself in affright, as I stood in the vacant room, gazing at the clock, which pointed to midnight, and seemed to say to me that it was too late to hope for my mistress's return.
Ikaraz beterik galdera horiek egiten nizkion neure buruari gela huts hartan, begiak pendulu-erlojuan tinko nituela. Hamabi-hamabiak markatu zituen, nere amorantearen zain egoteko gauerdia beranduegi zela adieraziz.