After our hero spots Gilberte for the first time, and sees the "woman in white" call her back to the house, it is divulged that the woman is Swann's wife and that she is unfaithfully standing next to a man in the yard identified as Charlus."
"...(as we moved away...my grandfather murmured: 'Poor Swann, what a life they are leading him — sending him away so that she can be alone with her Charlus — for it was he, I recognized him at once! And the child, too; at her age to be mixed up in all that!')"
Proust has planted an important seed in the plot line that will unfold in the rest of the novel — that Swann's wife is unfaithful, and that her lover is a man named Charlus. Both play major roles through the entirety of ISOLT.
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