"I can't tell you," said my great-aunt, "what a change I find in Swann. He is quite antiquated!" She had grown so accustomed to seeing Swann always in the same stage of adolescence that it was a shock to her to find him suddenly less young than the age she still attributed to him.
"Ez daukat hitzik Swannen aldaketa adierazteko-izeba-amonak, ostera-, ene bada, nola zahartu den!". Izeba-amona, izan ere, hain ohitua zegoen Swann beti nerabe ikusten non harritu egiten baitzen bat-batean ohartzerakoan ezen hura ez zela jadanik berak egozten segitzen ziòn adinekoa bezain gaztea.