There, surrounded by a score of the body-guard, all wide awake and closely attentive to the conversation between the Prime Minister and the Grand Mistress, the Duchessa said with a laugh to her friend:
Han baziren hogei zaindari, lehen ministroaren eta dama nagusiaren arteko solasari erne-erne eta adi-adi guztiak; baina dukesa honela mintzatu zitzaion, barrez, bere adiskideari: