And then, as soon as he had left the house, not without returning to kiss her once again, because he had forgotten to take away with him, in memory, some detail of her fragrance or of her features, while he drove home in his victoria, blessing the name of Odette who allowed him to pay her these daily visits, which, although they could not, he felt, bring any great happiness to her, still, by keeping him immune from the fever of jealousy-by removing from him every possibility of a fresh outbreak of the heart-sickness which had manifested itself in him that evening, when he had failed to find her at the Verdurins'-might help him to arrive, without any recurrence of those crises, of which the first had been so distressing that it must also be the last, at the termination of this strange series of hours in his life, hours almost enchanted, in the same manner as these other, following hours, in which he drove through a deserted Paris by the light of the moon:
Gero, hari agur esan ondoren, baina ez ordea berriro musu ematera sartu gabe, zeren ahaztua baitzuen nonbait bere gomutan Odetteren usainaren edo hazpegien berezitasunen bat atxikitzea, bere victorian etxera zihoalarik, bedeinkatu egiten zuen Odette, eguneroko bisita haiek baimentzen zizkiolako, Odetteri berari poz handirik ematen ez ziotela susmatu arren, bera ordea, Swann, jeloskeriaren aurka babesten baitzuten-Verdurintarrenean kausitu ez zuèn arrats hartan berarengan sortua zèn gaitza atzera berriz pairatu beharrik izan ez zezan-, bai eta laguntzen ere, hain oinazetsua gertatua zitzaièn eta bakarra izango zèn krisi haren modukorik berriro nozitu gabe, bere bizitzaren ordu zinez berezi haiek bururaino eramaten, ordu ia sorginduak, Paris ilargi zuriaren argipean zeharkatuz zihoàn haiek bezalakoxeak.