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> 小休止に出た人間が戻らないので、大人たちが客間へ行ったところ、扉が内から閉ざされて開かなかった。

"When the adults went to the parlor because the others didn't come back during
the break, the door was locked from the inside and they couldn't open it."
Would be my translation, but I'm not sure if that is correct. Does that に mean
"during" or am I completely wrong?
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Does this に mean "during"?
This に does not mean "during"; it indicates the reason why those people left.
So I would translate that part as something like "The people who had gone
**for** a short break weren't coming back".

If the intended meaning was "during", a phrasing like 小休止中に or 小休止の間に would be
used instead (though with the current word order this would still probably
refer to the timing of when they _left_ , not when they didn't return).
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