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may have to drop them from Modern Library. The two-volume thing will supply the couple of thousand people each year who read Proust still. I think he may have a revival someday because I think he's a very modern kind of author.

Oh, yes. It's the one author my husband reads in French constantly.

Does he?

Oh, he loves Proust--every book that Proust has ever written and that's a lot.

Well, maybe it was because we published Proust, we, in 1936 or so, we had submitted to us a little book that's forgotten now but that made quite sensation when it came out. It was called We Too Are Drifting by Gail Wilhelm. It was a straight lesbian story, which, at that time, was quite startling. The Well of Loneliness had just come out. That came from abroad. But We Too Are Drifting was a story by a San Francisco girl, Miss Wilhelm; and, as I way, it's forgotten now, but it made quite a sensation when it came out.

Did anyone try to censor it in the courts or anything?

No. It was a very delicate, beautiful, poignant story.