And if Françoise was amused by the look of consternation on my aunt's face whenever she saw, from her bed, any of these people in the Rue du Saint-Esprit, who looked as if they were coming to see her, or heard her own door-bell ring, she would laugh far more heartily, as at a clever trick, at my aunt's devices (which never failed) for having them sent away, and at their look of discomfiture when they had to turn back without having seen her; and would be filled with secret admiration for her mistress, whom she felt to be superior to all these other people, inasmuch as she could and did contrive not to see them.
Libertigarri zitzaizkion Françoiseri izebaren espantu-imintzioak, honek bere ohetik Saint-Esprit karrikan barrena pertsona haietakoren bat ustez bere etxerako asmotan ikustean, edo ateko txilin-hotsa aditzean, baina areago, barre eragiten baitzioten galanki, ongi asmaturiko jukutria haiek, izebaren trikimailu garaileek, jende haiek uxatzea lortzen baitzuen beti, eta bera ikusi gabe itzultzera behartuak zirèn bisitari-nahien begitarte zapuztuek, zeren, azken finean, miretsi egiten baitzuen bere etxekoandrea, eta haiei guztiei baino goragokotzat irizten, etxean hartu nahi ez zituelako.