and the customers, who looked like civil servants in Sunday best, were asking Cottard to confirm that he was Cottard, when, giving a sort of muffled cry, he swung round and was gone into the night before the two men or Tarrou had time to make a single movement.
Morroi haiek, igandez jantzitako itxuraz, zuzenean galdetu zioten Cottardi ea Cottard ote zen bere izena eta honek, halako aldarri apala boteaz, atzealdera jiratu eta berehalakoan murgildu zen gauean, ez besteei, ez Tarrouri berari ere imintziorik egiteko denborarik eman gabe.