After dinner, if he had an early appointment in the Bois or at Saint-Cloud, he would rise from table and leave the house so abruptly-especially if it threatened to rain, and so to scatter the 'faithful' before their normal time-that on one occasion the Princesse des Laumes (at whose house dinner had been so late that Swann had left before the coffee came in, to join the Verdurins on the Island in the Bois) observed:
Afalostean, Basoko edo Saint-Cloud-eko elkarretaratzea goiz samar baldin bazen, hain fite partitzen zen Swann mahaitik-batez ere eguraldi eurikara bazegoen, "leial" guztiak etxerarazteko mehatxari-, non behin Laumes-ko printzesak (berandu afaldu baitzuten arrats hartan harenean, eta Swannek kafea zerbitzatu aurretik alde egin behar Basoko uhartera Verdurintarrengana) zera esan baitzuen: