By this love Swann had been so far detached from all other interests that when by chance he reappeared in the world of fashion, reminding himself that his social relations, like a beautifully wrought setting (although she would not have been able to form any very exact estimate of its worth), might, still, add a little to his own value in Odette's eyes (as indeed they might have done had they not been cheapened by his love itself, which for Odette depreciated everything that it touched by seeming to denounce such things as less precious than itself), he would feel there, simultaneously with his distress at being in places and among people that she did not know, the same detached sense of pleasure as he would have derived from a novel or a painting in which were depicted the amusements of a leisured class;
kirurgian esan ohi den bezala, Swannen gaitza ez zen operagarria. Amodio haren kausaz, Swann hain erabat jaregina aurkitzen zen interes guztietatik, non, ausaz mundu-girora itzultzen zenean bere artean pentsatuz ezen bere harremanek, behar bezain zehazki balioztatu ez eta bazterrera utzitako zaldi-zela dotore baten antzera, agian balio handixeagoa eman liezaioketela berari Odetteren begietara (zeina beharbada egiazki gertatu ahal izango baitzatekeen, baldin harremanok ez balira amodio horren beraren eraginez hain narriatuak izan, amodio horrek, Odetterekin alderatuz, menostu egiten baitzituen ukitzen zituèn gauza guztiak, zutena baino balio gutxiagokotzat aldarrikatuz), hain jaregina, izan ere, non, halako giroetan, zera sentitzen baitzuen Swannek-Odettek ezagutzen ez zituèn leku eta jendeen artean egotearen larritasun-puntuarekin batera-: