And his host would fail to understand why, once they had reached the place, Swann would change his plans twenty times in an hour, inspect the dining-rooms of all the hotels in Compiègne without being able to make up his mind to settle down in any of them, although he had found no trace anywhere of the Verdurins, seeming to be in search of what he had claimed to be most anxious to avoid, and would in fact avoid, the moment he found it, for if he had come upon the little 'group,' he would have hastened away at once with studied indifference, satisfied that he had seen Odette and she him, especially that she had seen him when he was not, apparently, thinking about her. But no;
Eta lagunak ez zuen ulertuko zergatik bertaratu eta hogei aldiz aldatu behar zuen berak, Swannek, bere asmoa, Compiègneko hotel guztietako jantokiak arakatuz, haietako ezeinetan ordea esertzera deliberatu gabe, nahiz eta haietan Verdurintarren arrastorik inondik ageri ez, hots, ekidin nahi omen zuenaren bila ibilki heriosuhar, eta, aurkituz gero bestalde, hartatik ihes eginik, zeren, taldexka ikus baleza ere, berehala urrunduko bailitzateke, ezaxola-plantak eginez, kontent halere Odette ikusia zuelako eta, batez ere, Odettek bera ikusia zuelako, Odetteri muzinka eta Odettez arduragabeturik ikusi ere.