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Try to keep her amused , and also to give her a little sound advice . If you could arrange something for to-morrow which would please her , something that we could all three do together . Try to put out a feeler , too , for the summer ; see if there 's anything she wants to do , a cruise that we might all three take ; anything you can think of . I do n't count upon seeing her to-night , myself ; still if she would like me to come , or if you find a loophole , you 've only to send me a line at Mme. de Saint-Euverte 's up till midnight ; after that I shall be here . Ever so many thanks for all you are doing for me -- you know what I feel about you ! '' His friend promised to go and do as Swann wished as soon as he had deposited him at the door of the Saint-Euverte house , where he arrived soothed by the thought that M. de Charlus would be spending the evening in the Rue La Pérouse , but in a state of melancholy indifference to everything that did not involve Odette , and in particular to the details of fashionable life , a state which invested them with the charm that is to be found in anything which , being no longer an object of our desire , appears to us in its own guise . On alighting from his carriage , in the foreground of that fictitious summary of their domestic existence which hostesses are pleased to offer to their guests on ceremonial occasions , and in which they shew a great regard for accuracy of costume and setting , Swann was amused to discover the heirs and successors of Balzac 's ` tigers ' -- now ` grooms ' -- .