If he arrived after the hour at which Odette sent her servants to bed, before ringing the bell at the gate of her little garden, he would go round first into the other street, over which, at the ground-level, among the windows (all exactly alike, but darkened) of the adjoining houses, shone the solitary lighted window of her room.
Odettek bere zerbitzariei erretiratzeko baimena eman ondorengo berantorduz iristen bazen, lorategi txikiko atean jo aurretik, karrika-aldera jotzen zuen Swannek lehenik, etxabe-heineko Odetteren gelako leihorantz, inguruko etxeetako beste leiho ilundu guztiak bezalakoxea hura ere baina argiztatua zegoèn bakarra izaki.