He recognised that all the period of Odette's life which had elapsed before she first met him, a period of which he had never sought to form any picture in his mind, was not the featureless abstraction which he could vaguely see, but had consisted of so many definite, dated years, each crowded with concrete incidents.
Ohartzen zen ezen Odetteren bera ezagutu aurretiko bizitza-aldi osoa-zeina irudikatzen sekula ez baitzen arduratua-ez zela inolako denbora-hedadura abstraktu bat, berak lausoki baino ez zekusana, baizik eta aldi bat urte jakin batzuez egina, aldi bat gorabehera zehatzez josia.