“No, I think it’s just a pose, she wants to look the part.” But then, I regretted almost that I had pleaded the other’s innocence, for it distressed me that Albertine, formerly so severe, could believe that this “part” was a thing so flattering, so advantageous, that a woman innocent of such tastes could seek to “look it.” I would have liked to be sure that no more women were coming to Balbec; I trembled when I thought that, as it was almost time for