I was of opinion that if anything could rekindle that flame, it would be to let you see that mine was extinguished, but to let you see it through an endeavour to conceal it from you, as if I wanted the power to acknowledge it to you: this resolution I adhered to;
Uste nuen, noizbait nigana izan zenituen sentimenduak berpiz zitzakeen deus izatekotan, nireak aldatuak zirela ikusaraztea baizik ezin zitekeela izan hori, baina ezkutatzen nizulakoa iduri eginez, eta zuri aitortzeko kemenik edukiko ez banu bezala.