 He begins staking out the street where Mme de Guermantes walks every day, to her evident annoyance.He decides to visit her nephew Saint-Loup at his military base, to ask to be introduced to her.After noting the landscape and his state of mind while sleeping, the Narrator meets and attends dinners with Saint-Loup's fellow officers, where they discuss the Dreyfus Affair and the art of military strategy.