The walls were plastered with imitation marble and the enormous plate-glass windows were already in place; only the parquet floor was not finished, and the carpenters who were planing a square of the parquet left their work, and removing the tapes that kept their hair out of the way, bowed to the gentlefolk.
I muri erano intonacati di gesso, uso marmo, le finestre enormi interne erano già incastrate, soltanto il pavimento di legno non era ancora finito e i falegnami che piallavano un riquadro sollevato sospesero il lavoro per salutare i signori, togliendosi i legacci che trattenevano loro i capelli.