That night, on the staircase, as he was going up without a light, tottering a little from the wine he had drunk, he felt a woman who flung her arms about him, kissed him on the cheek, the mouth, even on the nose, gluttonously, and wetting his face with amorous tears, then left him.
Gauean, eskilaran, argi barik zihoala, edan zuen ardoak estropezu eragiten ziola, andrazko bat sumatu zuen gerritik oratzen, masailean, ezpainetan musu ematen, baita sudurrean ere, irrikaz, eta aurpegia maitasun malkoz bustitzen zuela, eta gero utzi egiten zuela.