Nothing is stranger, more delicate, than the relationship between people who know each other only by sight-who encounter and observe each other daily, even hourly, and yet are compelled by the constraint of convention or by their own temperament to keep up the pretense of being indifferent strangers, neither greeting nor speaking to each other.
Ez dago ezer bakanago eta finagorik bistaz bakarrik elkar ezagutzen duten pertsonen arteko harremana baino, egunero topo egin eta, orduoro, elkar behatzen dutenena baino, eta halere, gizarte-komentzionalismoz edo norbere apetaz, estrainiotasun axolakabearen itxurak egitera eta diosal edo hitzik ez trukatzera beharturik aurkitzen direnena baino.