Previously he had remembered the others' names, but now he had quite forgotten them, chiefly because Enoch was his favourite in the whole Old Testament, and attached to Enoch's being taken up to Heaven there was a long string of thought in his head, which now occupied his mind while he looked fixedly at his father's watch-chain and at a half-unfastened button of his waistcoat.
Antes recordaba los nombres, pero ahora los había olvidado completamente, sobre todo porque de todas las figuras del Antiguo Testamento la que prefería era la de Enoch, y porque junto a la idea del rapto del profeta se mezclaba en su cerebro una larga cadena de pensamientos a los que se entregaba también ahora, mientras miraba con ojos extáticos la cadena del reloj y un botón a medio abrochar del chaleco de su padre.