Chapter 20: Chapter 20

IV Sudden revulsion in favour of Albertine—Agony at sunrise—I set off at once with Albertine for Paris. I was only waiting for an opportunity for a final rupture. And, one evening, as Mamma was starting next day for Combray, where she was to attend the deathbed of one of her mother’s sisters, leaving me behind so that I might get the benefit, as my grandmother would have wished, of the sea air, I had announced to her that I had irrevocably decided not to marry Albertine and would very s…