⁠—don’t let us speak of it to that young officer I see there; he would be capable of refusing to visit his cousins there any more. There were also Saxons, as is proved by the springs of Sissonne” (the goal of one of Mme. Verdurin’s favourite excursions, and quite rightly), “just as in England you have Middlesex, Wessex. And what is inexplicable, it seems that the Goths, miserable wretches as they are said to have been, came as far as this, and even the Moors, for Mortagne comes from Mauretania . Their trace has remained at Gourville⁠— Gothorunvilla . Some vestige of the Latins subsists also, Lagny ( Latiniacum ).” “What I should like to have is an explanation of Thorpehomme,” said M. de Charlus. “I understand homme ,” he added, at which the sculptor and Cottard exchanged significant glances. “But Thorpe ?” “