But if anyone had suggested to my aunt that this Swann, who, in his capacity as the son of old M. Swann, was 'fully qualified' to be received by any of the 'upper middle class,' the most respected barristers and solicitors of Paris (though he was perhaps a trifle inclined to let this hereditary privilege go into abeyance), had another almost secret existence of a wholly different kind: that when he left our house in Paris, saying that he must go home to bed, he would no sooner have turned the corner than he would stop, retrace his steps, and be off to some drawing-room on whose like no stockbroker or associate of stockbrokers had ever set eyes-that would have seemed to my aunt as extraordinary as, to a woman of wider reading, the thought of being herself on terms of intimacy with Aristaeus, of knowing that he would, when he had finished his conversation with her, plunge deep into the realms of Thetis, into an empire veiled from mortal eyes, in which Virgil depicts him as being received with open arms;
Baina izeba-amonari esan balitzaio ezen Swann hark, zeina, Swann seme gisa, erabat "kualifikaturik" baitzegoen "burgesia eder" osoak abegi egin ziezaion, Parisko notario edo abokatu estimatuenek alegia (pribilegio hari apur bat muzin egina ziola zirudien arren etxeko emaztekien alde), guztiz bestelako bizitza bat zuela ezkutuan;