For an instant that morning, as Jonathan presented a framed watercolour to a client, he imagined Simone, after a discreet interval, succumbing to the odious Brezard, who after all was a bachelor and financially better off than Jonathan.
Une batez, goiz hartan, bezero bati akuarela enmarkatu bat erakusten zion bitartean, Jonathanek Simone amore ematen imajinatu zuen Brezard gorrotagarriaren aurrean diskreziozko tartetxo baten ondoren, zeren azken batean Brezard mutilzarra baitzen, eta diru aldetik Jonathan baino askoz hobeto zegoena.