Aunt Léonie who, after the death of her husband, my....

“ Aunt Léonie who, after the death of her husband, my Uncle Octave, no longer wished to leave, first Combray, then within Combray her house, then her bedroom, then her bed and no longer 'came down', always lying in an uncertain state of grief, physical debility, illness, obsession and piety. ”

Marcel Proust

From : Swann's Way