But after that hour another passed, a second, a third, and all the five hours that he had set himself as the longest term of possible endurance, and still the situation was unchanged; and he went on enduring, for there was nothing else to do but to endure – thinking every moment that he had reached the utmost limit of endurance and that in a moment his heart would burst with pity.
Pasó una hora de horrible tortura para él, pasó otra y otra, hasta las cinco que le habían indicado que duraría el parto, y al cabo de las cuales esperaba el final de su tribulación, pero después de aquel tiempo el estado de Kitty seguía igual. Se sentía desesperado.