Not referring to what he had believed half an hour previously, as though he were ashamed to remember it, Nicholas told them to give him a bottle of iodine covered with perforated paper for inhaling.
Sin ni siquiera aludir a lo que creía media hora antes, hasta como si se avergonzase de recordarlo, Nicolás pidió que le dieran a respirar el frasco de yodo cubierto de un papel agujereado.