Wenn er nachts in das Schlafzimmer kam, streckte sie ihm ihre mageren langen Arme aus ihren Decken entgegen, umschlang seinen Hals und zog ihn auf den Rand ihres Bettes. Und nun ging die Jeremiade los.
When Charles returned in the evening, she stretched forth two long thin arms from beneath the sheets, put them round his neck, and having made him sit down on the edge of the bed, began to talk to him of her troubles: he was neglecting her, he loved another.