ladies quite ignorant of the world, who in their social simplicity were so easily led to believe that the Princesse de Sagan and the Duchesse de Guermantes were obliged to pay large sums of money to other poor wretches, in order to have anyone at their dinner-parties, that if somebody had offered to procure them an invitation to the house of either of those great dames, the old doorkeeper and the woman of 'easy virtue' would have contemptuously declined.
munduaren gorabeherez pertsona ezjakinak biak, dena den, eta hain xalotasun handikoak non ezin aiseago sinetsaraziko baitzitzaiekeen biei ere, adibidez, Saganeko printzesak eta Guermantesko dukesak hainbat jende arlote ordaindu beharra izaten zutela beren afarietan afaltiarrik izango bazuten, hain inozoak, izan ere, non, bi dama handi haiengana gonbidatuak izateko aukera eskaini izan balitzaie, bai concierge ohiak bai cocotteak destainaz uko egingo baitzioketen seguru aski.