In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI_ Time Regained - Marcel Proust [235]
learning of his visit to the Verdurins: 447. Admits that her trip to Balbec with the chauffeur was an invention: 448–50. Denies having been intimate with Mile Vinteuil and her friend: 451–2. Her interrupted phrase (“get myself b …”) of which M finally discovers the meaning: 453–58. Crushed by M’s feigned decision to break with her there and then: 458–60. Her intimacy with Bloch’s cousin Esther: 460–61. Her three-week trip with Lea: 470–73, and her visit to Lea’s dressing room: 480. Reconciliation: 482–84. M visits her in her room and finds her already asleep: 485–86. Does she want to leave him?: 486–89. Attempts to dispel his suspicions: 491. Fears of her departure: 494–95. Her interest in old silver and Fortuny gowns: 496–501 (cf. 237–38, and her plans with M to acquire a yacht). Plays the pianola: 501–3, 513–16. Revelation about Gilberte: 506–7. Conversation about literature: 506–14. Watching her sleep once more: 521–22. Why she had returned to Paris with M; her relations with Andrée; her lie about the Buttes-Chaumont: 523–29. The Fortuny gown: 530–31 (cf. 237–38). Quarrel with M about Andrée; refusal to kiss him: 532–41. Noise of her window being opened during the night: 541–42. Visit to Versailles: 545–48. Makes eyes at a woman in a pastry-cook’s: 548–50. Her sudden departure: 558–59. “Mademoiselle Albertine has gone!”: 563–64. Her farewell letter: 565–66. Her behaviour just before her departure: 574–76. M learns that she has gone to Touraine: 580–81. How to get her back; plan to send Saint-Loup in search of her; Saint-Loup’s reaction to her photograph: 584–96. Her letter from Touraine and M’s reply: 610–21. Her forgotten rings: 623–27. Her third letter: 630–33. Saint-Loup’s report: 635–41. Her death in a riding accident: 641–42. Her two posthumous letters: 643–44. She continues to live in M after her death; his memories and regrets: 645–94. Aimé’s revelations about the bathing establishment at Balbec: 694–702. His inquiries in Tour aine and revelations about the laundry-girl: 706–15. Fragmentation into many different Albertines: 713–21. She appears in M’s dreams: 725–28. Andrée denies having had illicit relations with her: 737–41. M’s love for her survives in his pursuit of women of her type and background: 743–52. Stages on the road to indifference: 754, 801–6. Andrée’s revelations—her own relations with Albertine; Albertine and Morel; the syringa incident: 809–13. Albertine’s reason for leaving M; the Buttes-Chaumont; her relations with Octave: 821–43. M nearing total indifference, in Venice: 844, 848–50. Brief and fortuitous reawakenings of her memory: 866–69. A telegram which M believes to be from her accelerates his return to indifference: 869–74. The Austrian girl who resembles her: 879–81. M’s “reflex” memory of her at Tansonville: VI 3. He discusses her with Gilberte: 24–25. He no longer thinks of her: 117–18. Retrospectively, her exclamation on being caught by Françoise in flagrante delicto: 192. Linked with Saint-Loup in M’s memory: 227–28. Had been of use to him by causing him unhappiness: 319–20. The inspiration of his books: 328.
ALBON, Old M. d’. Smiles at a remark by Mme de Guermantes: VI 4.
ALIX, the “Marie-Antoinette of the Quai Malaquais,” one of the “three Parcae;” at Mme de Villeparisis’s reception: III 260–70.
AMBASSADRESS, Turkish. At the Guermantes’: III 732–40), why she irritates M: IV 80–81; her social utility: 82.
AMBRESAC, M., Mme and Mesdemoiselles d’. At Balbec; related to Mme de Villeparisis, despised by Albertine; Saint-Loup engaged to one of the girls?: II 633–36 (cf. III 37). Mme d’Ambresac at the Opéra: III 43–44. Saint-Loup denies the engagement rumour: 133–34. Competition for the hand of Daisy d’Ambresac: 553–54. Saint-Loup talks to her at the Princesse de Guermantes’ reception: IV 133.
AMONCOURT, Mme Timoléon d’. Offers the Duchesse de Guermantes some Ibsen manuscripts; her wit, beauty and obligingness: IV 89–91.
ANDRÉE. The eldest of the “little band” of girls at Balbec, the “tall one.” Jumps over the old banker: II 508 (cf. 631). Plays golf: 625–27. Introduced to M by Albertine: