Matkalla huomasin auki olevan työläisten ruokalan ja poikkesin aamun toiselle kahville. Yritin lukea, mutta heti avatessani kirjan minua alkoi tympiä. Olin oudon levottomuuden vallassa, levottomuuden, jonka panin juomani liian kahvin tiliin. Huomaamatta aloin leikitellä ajatuksella paluusta Kerstinin kotiin, mutta tuon liiaksi lämmitetyn talon tekopyhä ilmapiiri häiritsi minua. Vietin pari tuntia kuppilassa ja maleksin sitten rannalle. Kerstin istui yksinään penkillä katsellen veden yllä kaartelevaa kalalokkia. Istuin hänen viereensä ja tarjosin hänelle pastillin. Hän otti sen ja laski päänsä olkaani vasten.
On the way, I found that the cafeteria for workers was open and dropped in for another coffee in the morning. I tried to read, but as soon as I opened the book, it started to irritate me. I was under a strange restlessness, the restlessness that I attributed to drinking too much coffee. Without being aware, I started to toy with the idea of going back to Kerstin's home, but the hypocritical atmosphere of that overheated house disturbed me. I spent a couple of hours in the cafeteria and then hung around to the shore. Kerstin was sitting alone on the bench, watching a seagull roaming over the water. I sat next to her and offered a pastille to her. She took it and leaned her head against my shoulder.
* työläinen : worker (working man)
* ruokala : dining hall, canteen (small cafeteria or snack bar
* poiketa : (intransitive) to drop by, drop in
* tympiä : to irritate, to annoy
* valta : power, authority, rule
* levottomuus : restlessness, anxiety, unrest
* panna jokin jonkun tiliin : to blame somebody for something, to put the blame for something on somebody
* tili : account
* leikitellä : (intransitive) to toy with, to play with
* leikitellä jollakin ajatuksella : to toy with the idea of doing something
* paluu : return, going back
* tekopyhä : hypocritical
* ilmapiiri : climate, atmosphere
* häiritä : (transitive, usually atelic) to disturb, bother
* kuppila : Any establishment which serves food and/or drink, e.g. bar, pub, cafeteria, canteen, restaurant
* maleksia : (intransitive) to loiter, hang around aimlessly
* kaarrella : to wander or roam aimlessly
* kala : fish
* kalalokki : common gull
* tarjota : to offer
* pastilli : pastille (soft flavoured candy)
* olka : shoulder
* laskea : (transitive) to lower, move down
