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The mysteries of Albertine - The girls whom she sees reflected in the glass - The other woman - The lift-boy - Madame de Cambremer - The pleasures of M. Nissim Bernard - Outline of the strange character of Morel - M. de Charlus dines with the Verdurins.
In my fear lest the pleasure I found in this solitary excursion might weaken my memory of my grandmother, I sought to revive this by thinking of some great mental suffering that she had undergone; in response to my appeal that suffering tried to build itself in my heart, threw up vast pillars there; but my heart was doubtless too small for it, I had not the strength to bear so great a grief, my attention was distracted at the moment when it was approaching completion, and its arches collapsed before joining as, before they have perfected their curve, the waves of the sea totter and break.