He dressed, and while the horse was being harnessed – for it was early, and no izvoshchiks were about yet – he ran back to the bedroom not on tiptoe but, as it seemed to him, on wings.
Egli si vestì e, mentre attaccavano i cavalli, poiché vetture da nolo non ce n’erano ancora, rientrò di corsa nella stanza da letto, non in punta di piedi, ma sulle ali, come gli sembrava.