For the first minute or two, until the natural courtesy of the woman broke through the starched surface of the doctor's-wife, not being certain, either, whether she ought to mention the Verdurins before Swann, she produced, quite naturally, in her slow and awkward, but not unattractive voice, which, every now and then, was completely drowned by the rattling of the omnibus, topics selected from those which she had picked up and would repeat in each of the score of houses up the stairs of which she clambered in the course of an afternoon.
Hasieran, emakumearen jatorrizko adeitasunak bere burges ttipitasunaren almidoizko zurruntasuna zulatu ahal izan zezan baino lehen, eta ez jakinki haizu ote zitzaion Verdurintarrei buruz Swanni mintzatzea, Madame Cottardek naturaltasun osoz jardun zuen hizketan, bere ahots astitsu, moldakaitz eta gozoan-tarteka omnibusaren harrabotsak guztiz entzungaitz bihurtuan-, hainbat gairi buruz, egunero beraietako solairuak igotzen zituèn hogeita bost etxeetan entzuten eta errepikatzen zituèn esaldirik bere ustez aiutuenak hautatuz: