In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]

by Marcel Proust

Albertine must remain eternally unaware that he had informed me, the need to know having always been exceeded, in my love for Albertine, by the need to shew her that I knew; for this abolished between us the partition of different illusions, without having ever had the result of making her love me more, far from it.

#ProustTogether He enjoyed a line of questioning leading up to what he knew. He loved her anxiety when she realised where the questions were headed. Then she had to make a public decision to tell the truth. It was this moment Proust lived for as he pulled the wings off the fly.