I told you that job I was after in Rome didn't pan out, and here I was in Europe with only about two thousand dollars to my name, so I decided to live it up and go home-broke-and start over again.' Tom had explained to her in his letter that the job he had applied for had been selling hearing aids in Europe for an American company, and he hadn't been able to face it, and the man who had interviewed him, he said, hadn't thought him the right type, either.
Esan nizun Erromako lan hura ez zela atera, eta hementxe nengoen Europan bi mila dolar inguru besterik ez nuela, beraz erabaki nuen hemen ederki bizitzea eta etxera joandakoan, sosik gabe, berriro hutsetik hastea. Tomek eskutitzez esana zion eskatutako lan hura Europan gorrentzako aparatuak saltzeko zela, Amerikar konpainia batentzat, eta bera ez zela hari heltzeko gauza izan, eta elkarrizketatu zuen gizonari ere ez zitzaiola pertsona egokia iruditu.