She found something 'quaint' in the shape of each of her Chinese ornaments, and also in her orchids, the cattleyas especially (these being, with chrysanthemums, her favourite flowers), because they had the supreme merit of not looking in the least like other flowers, but of being made, apparently, out of scraps of silk or satin.
Bere tramankulu txinatar guztiei itxura "alaigarria" antzematen zien, eta gauza bera orkideei, eta batez ere catleya zeritzenei, hauek baitzituen, krisantemoekin batera, bere lorerik kuttunenak, meritu handi bat omen zutelako bere ustez, lore-itxurarik ez izatearena, zetaz, satinez egindako zerbaitena baizik.