But, when he was in his own house again, the idea suddenly struck him that, perhaps, Odette was expecting some one else that evening, that she had merely pretended to be tired, that she had asked him to put the light out only so that he should suppose that she was going to sleep, that the moment he had left the house she had lighted it again, and had reopened her door to the stranger who was to be her guest for the night.
Baina, etxera orduko, tupustean etorri zitzaion burutazioa, Odettek arrats hartan beharbada norbait igurikatzen zuela, planta besterik ez zela nekearena, eta argia itzaltzeko, lotarako asmotan zegoela sinets zezan soilik eskatua ziola, berak alde egin eta berehala piztua zukeela atzera berriz, eta gaua berarekin eman behar zuenari sartzen utzi.