that is to say, that at Paris, at every step, I might elbow the man who had already been her lover or who was about to, while in the country, surrounded by people whom we had never seen and who had no concern with us, alone with nature in the spring-time of the year, that annual pardon, and shut off from the noise of the city, I could hide my love, and love without shame or fear.
Mendian berriz, inoiz ikusi ez genuen eta gutaz arduratzen zen jende artean, udaberriaz guztiz apaindutako naturaren baitan eta hiriko zalapartatik urruti, neure maitasuna ezkuta nezakeen; lotsarik eta beldurrik gabe maita nezakeen.