Sometimes minutes – those minutes when she called him to her and he held her moist hand, now pressing his with extraordinary strength and now pushing him away – seemed to him like hours; and then again hours seemed but minutes.
A tratti i minuti, quei minuti in cui lei lo chiamava accanto a sé ed egli le teneva la mano sudata, che ora stringeva con una forza straordinaria, ora respingeva, gli sembravano ore; a tratti invece le ore gli sembravano minuti.