Then, noticing a streak of light that had made its way in at the side of the blind, he gaily let down his legs and felt about with his feet for his slippers finished with bronze kid (last year's birthday present, embroidered by his wife); and from nine years' habit he stretched out his arm, without rising, towards where his dressing-gown usually hung in their bedroom. And then he suddenly remembered that, and why, he was not sleeping there but in his study.
Observó que un hilo de luz se filtraba por las rendijas de la persiana, alargó los pies, alcanzó sus zapatillas de tafilete bordado en oro, que su mujer le regalara el año anterior con ocasión de su cumpleaños, y, como desde hacía nueve años tenía por costumbre, extendió la mano hacia el lugar donde, en el dormitorio conyugal, acostumbraba tener colocada la bata.