Like everyone who possesses something precious, so as to know what would happen if he ceased for a moment to possess it, he had detached the precious object from his mind, leaving, as he thought, everything else in the same state as when it was there.
Gauza baten jabe diren guztiek egin ohi duten bezala, noizbait haren jabetzak huts eginez gero zer gertatuko ote litzatekeen jakitearren, Swannek ere kendua zuen gauza hori bere gogartetik, gainerako guztia, ordea, hura han zegoenean zegoèn bezalaxe utziz.