Im nächsten Augenblick mußte sie in ihr Zimmer gehen, in das K. gewiß um Mitternacht nicht eindringen durfte; er mußte sie also jetzt ansprechen, hatte aber unglücklicherweise versäumt, das elektrische Licht in seinem Zimmer anzudrehen, so daß sein Vortreten aus dem dunklen Zimmer den Anschein eines Überfalls hatte und wenigstens sehr erschrecken mußte.
The next moment she would certainly go into her room, where K. ought not to intrude in the middle of the night; that meant he would have to speak to her now, but, unfortunately, he had not put the electric light on in his room so that when he stepped out of the dark it would give the impression of being an attack and would certainly, at the very least, have been quite alarming.