Anna, all alone, awaiting his return from a bachelor dinner-party, paced up and down his study (which was the room in which the street noises were least audible), recalling in detail every word of their yesterday's quarrel. Passing ever backwards from the memorably offensive words of the quarrel to their cause, she at last got back to the beginning of their conversation.
Anna, sola, aspettava il ritorno di lui da un pranzo di scapoli a cui era andato, camminava avanti e indietro per il suo studio (la stanza dove si sentiva meno il rumore del selciato), e ripensava in tutti i particolari le espressioni del litigio del giorno prima.