C’était une invitation qui, il y a deux ans, eût indigné M. Vinteuil, mais qui, maintenant, le remplissait de sentiments si reconnaissants qu’il se croyait obligé par eux, à ne pas avoir l’indiscrétion de l’accepter. →
It was an invitation which, two years earlier, would have enraged M. Vinteuil, but which now filled him with so much gratitude that he felt himself obliged to refrain from the indiscretion of accepting.