When, like Cottard, you have spent your days looking for possible police spies in everyone, even people you liked being with, you can understand the feeling.
Guzti horien artean, nahiz lagun giroaren bila ibili, salatari izan daitekeena sumatzen denbora luzea eman duzunean, Cottardek eman duen bezala, ulertu ahal daiteke sentipen hori.