So complete was their negation of interest in anything which seemed directly or indirectly a part of our everyday life that their sense of hearing-which had gradually come to understand its own futility when the tone of the conversation, at the dinner-table, became frivolous or merely mundane, without the two old ladies' being able to guide it back to the topic dear to themselves-would leave its receptive channels unemployed, so effectively that they were actually becoming atrophied.
Haien pentsamenduaren bizitza mundanoari hurbiletik nahiz urrundik lotua zegokeela zirudièn ororekiko ezaxola hain zen nabarmena non haien entzumenak berak ere-ulerturik ezen alferrikakoa zuela ahalegin oro, afalorduan elkarrizketak tonu friboloa edo soilik lurraren arrasekoa hartzen zuenean, bi andereño zaharrek hura beren gogoko gaietara garraiatu ahal ukan zezaten-atseden ematen baitzien entzute-organoei, eta are benetako atrofia-hasiera bat pairarazten.