It was one afternoon, when he chanced to meet me and Adele in the grounds: and while she played with Pilot and her shuttlecock, he asked me to walk up and down a long beech avenue within sight of her. He then said that she was the daughter of a French opera-dancer, Celine Varens, towards whom he had once cherished what he called a "_grande passion_."
Una tarde nos mandó llamar a Adèle y a mí y, mientras ella jugaba con Piloto, él me llevó a pasear y me explicó que aquella Céline Varens había sido una bailarina francesa que fue su gran pasión.