Et chaque fois que ma mère était revenue à la charge au cours de la visite, il avait répété plusieurs fois «Mais je ne sais qui a mis cela sur le piano, ce n’est pas sa place», et avait détourné la conversation sur d’autres sujets, justement parce que ceux-là l’intéressaient moins. →
And every time that my mother, in the course of her visit, had returned to the subject of his playing, he had hurriedly protested: "I cannot think who put that on the piano; it is not the proper place for it at all," and had turned the conversation aside to other topics, simply because those were of less interest to himself.