(True, the young man declared that he'd had enough of them to last his whole life, but she knew that he was still much younger than he thought.) She wanted him to be completely hers and herself to be completely his, but it often seemed to her that the more she tried to give him everything, the more she denied him something: the very thing that a light and superficial love or a flirtation gives a person.
(Egia da mutilak adierazten zuela halako emakumeez kopetaraino zegoela bere bizitza guztirako, baina neskak bazekien uste baino askozaz gazteagoa zela). Mutila zeharo berea izan zedin nahi zuen, eta mutilarena zeharo izan, baina maiz iruditzen zitzaion zenbat eta saiatzenago zen dena ematen, orduan eta zerbait ukatzenago ziola: sakontasunik gabeko amodio azalekoak gizakiari ematen diona hain zuzen, gizakiari flirtak ematen diona.