They ’drank a draught’ together, and came to the surface again spitting, spluttering and laughing, as though forgetting their age, she her tormented fifteen years of living her childhood companion, he forgetting his sixteen years of domination, his debonair disdain, his precocious lordliness and his unreasonable demands."
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Tots dos «van empassar-se aigua», i van reaparèixer escopint, esbufegant i rient com si oblidessin: ella, els seus quinze anys turmentats d’amor pel seu company d’infantesa; ell, els seus setze anys dominadors, el seu desdeny de noi ben plantat i la seva exigència de propietari precoç.
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