It would have been another matter if I had met her during the time that I still looked like a respectable human being-in my old, well-off days when I had sufficient to make an appearance;
Beste gauza bat izango zatekeen oraindik pertsona tankera nuen egun haietan, nire oparotasun egunetan, bizitzeko adina nuenean, ezagutu izan banu. Eta oso deprimituta sentitu nintzen.