Or, sans qu’on eût besoin de lui parler de Balbec, ce fut lui-même, Legrandin, qui, ne se doutant pas que nous eussions jamais l’intention d’aller de ce côté, vint se mettre dans le piège un soir où nous le rencontrâmes au bord de la Vivonne. →
And, as it happened, there was no need for any of us to introduce the subject of Balbec, for it was Legrandin himself who, without the least suspicion that we had ever had any intention of visiting those parts, walked into the trap uninvited one evening, when we met him strolling on the banks of the Vivonne.