He recalled the days when his mother, still young, used to come in the afternoon, and sit at the drawing-room piano and he, silently, from behind the door leading to the garden, listened to her until night. . .
Il se rappela le temps où sa mère, jeune encore, se mettait au piano l’après-midi dans le salon, et lui, sans rien dire, derrière la porte qui donnait sur le jardin, il l’écoutait jusqu’à la nuit…