There emerged, however, from this unexplored tract, certain occupations which reappeared from time to time, vaguely connected by Odette with some obligation towards distant relatives or old friends who, inasmuch as they were the only people whom she was in the habit of mentioning as preventing her from seeing him, seemed to Swann to compose the necessary, unalterable setting of her life.
Hala ere, geruza ezezagunaren gainean igerika, baziren aldian aldiro berragertzen zitzaizkiòn zeregin jakin batzuk, Odettek urruneko senitartekoengana edo aspaldiko lagunengana omen zituèn betebeharrekin lanbrotsuki lotu ohi zituenak, senitarteko eta lagun horiek, azkenean, Swannentzat-beraiek izaki biek elkar ikusteko Odettek aipatu ohi zizkiòn eragozle bakarrak-zera bihurtu zirelarik, Odetteren bizitzako marko finkoa, ezinbesteko eragileak.