Two women perhaps were standing there, the mother and the sister, clutching their wind-blown coifs, gazing as if they could see what was now happening to the little fellow through the leagues which separated them.
Deux femmes étaient debout, la mere, la soeur, tenant leurs coiffes emportées, regardant, elles aussi, comme si elles avaient pu voir ce que faisait a cette heure le petit, au-dela des lieues qui les séparaient.