Comme je n’avais aucune notion sur la hiérarchie sociale, depuis longtemps l’impossibilité que mon père trouvait à ce que nous fréquentions Mme et Mlle Swann avait eu plutôt pour effet, en me faisant imaginer entre elles et nous de grandes distances, de leur donner à mes yeux du prestige. →
As I was still completely ignorant of the different grades in the social hierarchy, the fact that my father found it impossible for us to see anything of Swann's wife and daughter had, for a long time, had the contrary effect of making me imagine them as separated from us by an enormous gulf, which greatly enhanced their dignity and importance in my eyes.