It was Gerty who turned off the gas at the main every night and it was Gerty who tacked up on the wall of that place where she never forgot every fortnight the chlorate of lime Mr Tunney the grocer's christmas almanac, the picture of halcyon days where a young gentleman in the costume they used to wear then with a threecornered hat was offering a bunch of flowers to his ladylove with oldtime chivalry through her lattice window.
Gertyk ixten zuen gauero gasaren giltza, berak jartzen zuen paretan behar zen lekuan Tunney dendari jaunareneko urteroko egutegia, eta ez zitzaion behin ere ahazten hamabostero kare-kloruroa eman behar zuela markatzea bertan, non agertzen baitzen jaun gazte bat bere egun alcyondarretan garaiko janzkiak soinean eta kapela hiru-kantoia buruan, bere andere maiteari lore sorta bat eskaintzen antzinako zaldunen erara haren leiho saredunean barrena.