Everyone was so well known in Combray, animals as well as people, that if my aunt had happened to see a dog go by which she 'didn't know at all' she would think about it incessantly, devoting to the solution of the incomprehensible problem all her inductive talent and her leisure hours. "That will be Mme.
Combrayn mundu guztia zen ezaguna, animaliak eta pertsonak, hainbesteraino izan ere non, menturaz, berak "ezagutzen ez zuèn" txakurren bat pasatzen ikusi izan balu gure izebak, ez baitziokeen hartaz pentsatzeari utziko, gertakari zinez ulertezin hari bere gogoeta-trebetasun guztiak eta bere aisialdi-orenak oro eskainiz.