Once, when they had gone away, as everyone thought, for a month only, either they succumbed to a series of temptations, or else M. Verdurin had cunningly arranged everything beforehand, to please his wife, and disclosed his plans to the 'faithful' only as time went on; anyhow, from Algiers they flitted to Tunis;
Behin batean, hilabete baterako bakarrik partituak, ustez behintzat, dela bidean apetak tentatu zituelako, dela Verdurin jaunak gauzak aldez aurretik maltzurki apailatuak zituelako-bere emazteari gustua ematearren, eta leialei bidaia aurreratu ahala soilik emanez asmoen aldaketaren berri-, Aljeretik Tunisiara joan ziren, handik Italiara, gero Greziara, Konstantinoplara, Asia Txikira.