In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]

by Marcel Proust

“Good lord, no! That is to say, my uncle’s a great friend of Swann, and has always stood up for him. But no one has ever suggested that he was his wife’s lover. You would make a great sensation in Paris society if people thought you believed that.” I dared not reply that it would have caused an even greater sensation in Combray society if people had thought that I did not believe it.