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a Florentine painting (316). Love letter from Odette written from the Maison Dorée (319). Swann’s arrival at the Verdurins’ one evening after Odette’s departure (320); anguished search in the night (323). The cattleyas (328); she becomes his mistress (331). Odette’s vulgarity (341); her idea of “chic” (344). Swann begins to adopt her tastes (348) and considers the Verdurins “magnanimous people” (352). Why, nevertheless, he is not a true member of the “faithful,” unlike Forcheville (355). A dinner at the Verdurins’: Brichot (356), Cottard (357), the painter (361), Saniette (370). The little phrase (374). Swann’s jealousy: one night, dismissed by Odette at midnight, he returns to her house and knocks at the wrong window (387). Forcheville’s cowardly attack on Saniette, and Odette’s smile of complicity (393). Odette’s door remains closed to Swann one afternoon; her lying explanation (394). Signs of distress that accompany Odette’s lying (398). Swann deciphers a letter from her to Forcheville through the envelope (400). The Verdurins organise an excursion to Chatou without Swann (403). His indignation with them (406). Swann’s exclusion (410). Should he go to Dreux or Pierrefonds to find Odette? (415). Waiting through the night (419). Peaceful evenings at Odette’s with Forcheville (424). Recrudescence of anguish (426). The Bayreuth project (427). Love and death and the mystery of personality (438). Charles Swann and “young Swann” (440). Swann, Odette, Charlus and Uncle Adolphe (442). Longing for death (451).

An evening at the Marquise de Saint-Euverte’s. Detached from social life by his love and his jealousy, Swann can observe it as it is in itself (458): the footmen (459); the monocles (463); the Marquise de Cambremer and the Vicomtesse de Franquetot listening to Liszt’s “St Francis” (466); Mme de Gallardon, a despised cousin of the Guermantes (467). Arrival of the Princesse des Laumes (469); her conversation with Swann (483). Swann introduces the young Mme de Cambremer (Mlle Legrandin) to General de Froberville (489). Vinteuil’s little phrase poignantly reminds Swann of the days when Odette loved him (490). The language of music (495). Swann realises that Odette’s love for him will never revive (502).

The whole past shattered stone by stone (cf. 529). Bellini’s Mahomet II (505). An anonymous letter (506). Les Filles de Marbre (512). Beuzeville-Bréauté (513). Odette and women (513). Impossibility of ever possessing another person (517). On the Ile du Bois, by moonlight (519). A new circle of hell (522). The terrible re-creative power of memory (523). Odette and procuresses (525). Had she been lunching with Forcheville at the Maison Dorée on the day of the Paris-Murcie festival? (526; cf. 319). She was with Forcheville, and not at the Maison Dorée, on the night when Swann had searched for her in Prévost’s (527; cf. 327). Odette’s suspect effusions (529). “Charming conversation” in a brothel (530). Odette goes on a cruise with the “faithful” (531). Mme Cottard assures Swann that Odette adores him (534). Swann’s love fades; he no longer suffers on learning that Forcheville has been Odette’s lover (538). Return of his jealousy in a nightmare (539). Departure for Combray, where he will see the young face of Mme de Cambremer whose charm had struck him at Mme de Saint-Euverte’s (541). The first image of Odette seen again in his dream: he had wanted to die for a woman “who wasn’t his type” (543).

PLACE-NAMES • THE NAME

Dreams of place-names. Rooms at Combray (545). Room in the Grand Hotel at Balbec (545; cf. 8). The real Balbec and the Balbec of dream (545). The 1.22 train (548). Dreams of spring in Florence (549; cf. 554). Words and names (550). Names of Norman towns (551). Abortive plan to visit Florence and Venice (554). The doctor forbids me to travel or to go to the theatre to see Berma (559); he advises walks in the Champs-Elysées under Françoise’s surveillance (560).

In the Champs-Elysées. A little girl with red hair; the name Gilberte (560). Games of prisoner’s base (562). What will the weather be like? (563). Snow in