to both her parents; the two Gilbertes: 188–92. M’s doubts as to her true character: 195–96. Why he dare not invite her to his home: 204. Beginnings of the rupture with M; her sulks; M writes her mutually contradictory letters to which she does not reply; his feigned indifference: 211–27, 235–36. Another New Year’s Day; M’s efforts to extinguish his love; his letters: 251–60, 269–71. The two walkers in the Elysian gloom: Gilberte and a young man—later identified as Lea in male costume (V 7): 272–77. M’s dream about her: 281–82. Further progress towards forgetting her: 284–86. Brief recrudescence of his love for her, extinguished by habit: 299–301. Later, M declines Swann’s invitation to meet her again: IV 153–54. He gives the turquoise-studded book-cover she had had made for him to Albertine: 186–87 (see 175). He writes to her, without emotion; her name depoeticised: 187–88. She inherits a fortune; the Faubourg Saint-Germain begins to take an interest in her and her mother: 199. M interrogates Albertine about her: V 20 (cf. IV 186–87). He learns from her maid that at the time when he used to visit her every day, she was in love with another “young man”: 173–74. Albertine admits to having kissed her: 506–7. Her resemblance to Albertine: 677–78. M meets her without recognising her; she gives him a furtive glance that arouses him; he wrongly identifies her as Mile d’Eporcheville: 758–65. Reintroduced to M at Mme de Guermantes’s; she has become Mile de Forcheville: 773–77. Responds with alacrity to Mme de Guermantes’s advances; lunches at her house: 780–86; prefers to forget her father; conceals her origins; her snobbery: 786–97. Failure to fulfil her father’s hopes: 799–801. Sends M a telegram in Venice which he imagines to be from Albertine: 869–74 (cf. 889–90). Her marriage to Robert de Saint-Loup: 889, 895–97, 900–3. Changes in her attitude to society after her marriage: 907–12. M renews his friendship with her, and visits her at Tansonville: 920–21. Robert’s infidelity: 921–25. Her pregnancy: 925–26. Jealous of Rachel, whom she seeks to imitate: 928–30. Her avarice: 931–33. Walks with M at Combray; her surprising revelations about the two “ways”: VI 41. Confesses her love for him as a child; the meaning of her indelicate gesture: 4–5. It was with Lea that she had been walking in the Champs-Elysées: 6–7 (cf. II 272–73). Her love for Robert: 9, and her relations with him at Tansonville: 11–18. Discusses Albertine with M: 22–25. Reads Balzac’s La Fille aux yeux d’or. 23, 26. Lends M a volume of the Goncourt Journal: 26. In September 1914, leaves Paris for Combray; writes to M about the German invasion: 88–89. In 1916, writes him another letter with a new interpretation of her departure: 93–96. Her face becomes a perfect replica of Odette’s: 361. At the Princesse de Guermantes’s, M takes her for her mother: 427–28. Conversation about Robert: 428–32. Her friendship with Andrée: 432–33. Her disdain for the new Princesse de Guermantes (Mme Verdurin) and even for Oriane: 434–35. Her ironic and fanciful reply to Mme de Morien val: 461. Vilified by Mme de Guermantes: 476–500. Introduces her daughter to M: 501–7.
GINESTE, Marie. Sister of Celeste Albaret; lady’s-maid at Balbec: IV 265, 331–33. Her friendship with M; her colourful language: 333–36. Her grief at M’s departure: 716.
GIRL (tall and handsome) admired by M as she serves café au lait to the passengers on the train to Balbec: II 317–18.
GIRL (“glorious”) with the cigarette who joins the little train at Saint-Pierre-des-Ifs: IV 381–82.
GIRL (with blue eyes) whom Swann meets in a brothel: I 530–31.
GIRL (blonde) who gazes at M in the restaurant at Rivebelle: II 541; his obsession with her: 549.
GIRL resembling Albertine getting into a car in the Bois: V 758.
GIRL (little poor) taken home by M after Albertine’s departure: V 583. Her parents bring a charge against him: 597–99.
GIRL (little) with a bicycle in the Bois: V 224.
GIRL (little) with the sharp voice, a friend of Gilberte’s, in the Champs-Elysées: I 560–61, 567, 577.
GIRLS (two), friends of Lea, whom Albertine