As we both sat back in the certainty that France and England, whose diplomatic missions had been in Moscow for some time, would in the end come to an agreement with the U.S.S.R. (this understanding, which we thought inevitable, would save the independence of Poland and peace at the same time, and so bring about the end of the Axis pact, and the fall of Mussolini at least), we now talked nearly always of art and literature.
Biok ezinago seguru geunden Frantzia eta Ingalaterra azkenerako konpondu egingo zirela SESBrekin, haien misio diplomatikoak aspaldian iritsiak baitziren Moskura (biok ezinbestekotzat jotzen genuen akordioak Poloniaren independentzia ez ezik, bakea ere salbatuko zuen, bide batez, Altzairuzko Itunearen bukaerarekin bateratsu, gutxienez Mussoliniren erorketa ere eraginez), eta ia beti literaturaz eta arteaz hitz egiten genuen.