Delante de esta celosía dorada, Akiko encontró a su calvo padre, con otro caballero de la misma edad, fumando un puro. Cuando la vio, asintió levemente con evidente satisfacción y, sin prestarle más atención, se volvió hacia su compañero y siguió fumando.
The French naval officer went to one of the tables with Akiko, and they began to eat ice-cream. As they ate, she noticed that ever and anon his eyes were drawn to her hands or her hair or her neck with the light blue ribbon round it. This did not, of course, make her unhappy. But at one moment a womanly doubt could not but flash forth in her. Then, as two young women who looked like Germans went by with red camellias on their black velvet breasts, in order to hint at this doubt, she