His heart closed up, and at first the conversation would not open itself. Mittler, however, knew very well that a heart that is occupied with love has an urgent necessity to express itself-to pour out to a friend what is passing within it; and he allowed himself, therefore, after a few speeches backwards and forwards, for this once to go out of his character, and play the confidant in place of the mediator. He had calculated justly.
Itxi zitzaion bihotza eta lehenengotan zail gertatzen zitzaion elkarrizketan sartzea. Baina Mittlerrek ondotxo zekien maitasun-arazotan dabilen arima barrua asaskatzeko premia larria sentitzen duela, adiskide baten aurrean sentitzen duenari irteera ematekoa, eta horrela, zenbait hizka-mizkaren ondoren, bere paperetik irten eta bitartekari izatetik konfiantzazko pertsona izatera atseginez aldatu zen.