Women being in this respect more rebellious than men, more reluctant to lay aside all worldly curiosity and the desire to find out for themselves whether other drawing-rooms might not sometimes be as entertaining, and the Verdurins feeling, moreover, that this critical spirit and this demon of frivolity might, by their contagion, prove fatal to the orthodoxy of the little church, they had been obliged to expel, one after another, all those of the 'faithful' who were of the female sex.
Doktorearen emazte gazteaz landa, emakumezkoek taldexkan zutèn ordezkaritasuna, urte hartan, ia erabat bi pertsonatara zegoen murriztua (nahiz eta Madame Verdurin bera bertutetsua eta familia burges errespetagarri lar aberats eta zeharo ilun bateko, zeinarekin apur-apurka eta berak hala nahita harreman oro etena baitzuen, alaba izan):