What had happened was that they had at once discovered in him a locked door, a reserved, impenetrable chamber in which he still professed silently to himself that the Princesse de Sagan was not grotesque, and that Cottard's jokes were not amusing; in a word (and for all that he never once abandoned his friendly attitude towards them all, or revolted from their dogmas), they had discovered an impossibility of imposing those dogmas upon him, of entirely converting him to their faith, the like of which they had never come across in anyone before.
Zera, oso goiz sumatu izana ezen Swannek bazuela halako barne-esparru bat bere-berea, bertara beste inor ezin sartuzkoa, non jarraitzen baitzuen isilean bere iritziei eusten, adibidez, Saganeko printzesa ez zela oiesa, eta Cottarden zirtoak ez zirela barregarriak, alegia, esparru bat, non Verdurintarrek, nahiz eta Swannek sekula bere adeitasuna alde batera utzi ez eta haien dogmen aurka sekula oldartu ez, garbi baitzekusaten ezin zizkiotela berauek inposatu, ezin zutela gizon hura dogma haietara konbertiarazi, ezintasun bat, izan ere, inoiz beste inorekin sentitu gabea. Barkatuko zioketen tarteka "aspergarri"engana ere joatea (haiek baino mila aldiz gogokoago zituèn arren, eta bihotzez izan ere, bai Verdurintarrak, bai berauen ingurunetxo guztia), baldin eta, etsenplu-emaile, leialen aurrean haiek deblauki arbuiatzeari amore eman izan balio.