Sometimes minutes – those minutes when she called him to her and he held her moist hand, now pressing his with extraordinary strength and now pushing him away – seemed to him like hours; and then again hours seemed but minutes.
Aquellos momentos en que Kitty le llamaba a su lado y con sus manos sudorosas apretaba las suyas con gran ansia, con fuerza extraordinaria, y se las abandonaba después, con expresión de agotamiento, le parecían horas; o bien el tiempo se le pasaba sin sentirlo.