With noiseless steps she advanced toward the bedside, went round so that he need not turn his head, and at once grasping his enormous skeleton hand with her fresh young one, pressed it, and with that sympathetic, quiet animation which gives no offence and is natural only to women, she began to talk to him.
Siempre silenciosa, se aproximó al lecho donde aquél yacía y se puso de modo que él no necesitase volverse para verla. Tomó con su mano joven y fresca la enorme manaza de él, se la apretó con aquel calor con que saben hacerlo las mujeres, calor que expresa compasión sin ofender, y empezó a hablar al doliente.