" In fact only five days had gone by since her last visit, but the intimacy between the two cousins, an intimacy similar in closeness and feeling to that which was to bind Italians and Austrians in their opposing trenches a few years later, was such that five days really could seem a long time.
Azken bisitaz gero bost egun besterik ez ziren igaro, zehazki esanda, baina hainbesterainokoa izanik bi lehengusinen arteko mamitasuna-handik oso urte gutxitara italiarrak eta austriarrak elkarren ondoko trintxeretan batuko zituenaren antzekoa, bai hurbiltasunagatik, bai sentimenduengatik-, bost egun egiatan asko zirela esan zitekeen.