M. de Charlus and with an air of such complete indifference that Mme. Verdurin doubted whether it was to herself that this “Quite well” had been addressed, uttered with a marvellously detached intonation, which wrung from M. de Charlus, despite his broken heart, a smile of expert and delighted appreciation of the art of impertinence. Morel, who had watched from the distance the preparations for his presentation, now approached. The Queen offered her arm to M.