Et sans avoir pris le temps d’enlever nos affaires, nous montions vite chez ma tante Léonie pour la rassurer et lui montrer que, contrairement à ce qu’elle imaginait déjà, il ne nous était rien arrivé, mais que nous étions allés «du côté de Guermantes» et, dame, quand on faisait cette promenade-là, ma tante savait pourtant bien qu’on ne pouvait jamais être sûr de l’heure à laquelle on serait rentré. →
And without wasting time by stopping to take off our 'things' we would fly upstairs to my aunt Léonie's room to reassure her, to prove to her by our bodily presence that all her gloomy imaginings were false, that, on the contrary, nothing had happened to us, but that we had gone the 'Guermantes way,' and, good lord, when one took that walk, my aunt knew well enough that one could never say at what time one would be home.