As the different changes and chances that bring us into the company of certain other people in this life do not coincide with the periods in which we are in love with those people, but, overlapping them, may occur before love has begun, and may be repeated after love is ended, the earliest appearances, in our life, of a creature who is destined to afford us pleasure later on, assume retrospectively in our eyes a certain value as an indication, a warning, a presage.
Hala nola zenbait pertsonaren presentziara garamatzaten era askotariko halabeharrek ez duten berez bat etorri beharrik pertsona horiek maite ditugun denborarekin-baizik eta gerta litekeen, denbora hori gaindituz, denbora horren aurretikoak izatea edo denbora horren ondotik errepikatzea-, halaxe, gerora, halabeharrez halaber, ezin atseginago suertatuko zaizkigun zenbait pertsonaren lehen agerraldiek ere, atzera begiradaz, abisu-balioa, zotal-balioa hartzen dute guretzat.