Mlle Vinteuil comprit que son amie ne le verrait pas si elle n’attirait pas sur lui son attention, et elle lui dit, comme si elle venait seulement de le remarquer: —«Oh! ce portrait de mon père qui nous regarde, je ne sais pas qui a pu le mettre là, j’ai pourtant dit vingt fois que ce n’était pas sa place.» →
Mlle. Vinteuil realised that her friend would not see it unless her attention were drawn to it, and so exclaimed, as if she herself had just noticed it for the first time: "Oh! there's my father's picture looking at us; I can't think who can have put it there; I'm sure I've told them twenty times, that is not the proper place for it."