All these circumstances, often repeated in Paris, the mother city of scandal, had begun to be forgotten, and I was even little by little forgetting the part I had taken in them, when a new incident brought to my knowledge the whole of Marguerite's life, and acquainted me with such pathetic details that I was taken with the idea of writing down the story which I now write.
Eskandaluaren ama den Pariseko hirian, gorabehera hauek guztiak ahazten hasi ziren eta nik ere neuk parte hartutako gertaerak ahaztuxeak nituen. Baina beste gorabehera bati esker Margaritaren bizitza osoa nolakoa izan zen jakin nuen, eta hain xehetasun hunkigarriak ikasi nituenez, argitaratu dudan historia hau idazteko gogoa eman zidan.