? Why, that’s marvellous! I might have tried for a hundred years without guessing it,” cried M. Verdurin, who all the same would have decided immediately that you were not literary, were not artistic, were not “one of us,” if he had heard you quote the full title of certain works. For instance, one was expected to say the Malade , the Bourgeois ; and whoso would have added imaginaire or gentilhomme would have shown that he did not understand “shop,” just as in a drawing-room a person proves that he is not in society by saying “ M. de Montesquiou-Fézensac” instead of “ M. de Montesquiou.” “But it is not so extraordinary,” said Saniette, breathless with emotion but smiling, albeit he was in no smiling mood.