She peered at me over her spectacles, and then she opened a drawer and fumbled among its contents for a long time, so long that my hopes began to falter. At last, having held a document before her glasses for nearly five minutes, she presented it across the counter, accompanying the act by another inquisitive and mistrustful glance--it was for J.E.
Mi guardò disopra gli occhiali e cercò lungamente in un cassetto; tanto lungamente che stavo per perdere ogni speranza, quando finalmente prese una carta, la fissò per cinque minuti e quindi me la diede, gettando su di me uno sguardo scrutatore e dubbioso.