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668 J A M E S f 1932-1935 ]on February 2, 1934, by striking Nora, and her internment in a sanatoriumcould no longer be deferred.Joyce sent her, accompanied by a nurse, back to Forel's sanatorium atNyon. On her arrival she was apathetic, incapable of concentration, fullof ambivalent wishes, but a few days later she seemed oddly content withher surroundings. Then in March, Joyce's unquenchable expectation ofa miraculous cure was momentarily dashed by her 'pseudo-hallucinativedissociation' of mind, and by her several attempts to run away to Paris.During one of these she tried to seek refuge in a peasant hut, intendingto cross the border next day, but was found and brought back. Her conditionwas to grow worse instead of better. Joyce continued to hope; hewrote Frank Budgen on April 25, 'She'll get all right they say. One needsall Job's patience with Solomon's wisdom and the Queen of Sheba's pinmoneythrown in.' 86With Lucia away, it became possible for him to live at least a semblanceof ordinary life in Paris. Leon protected him from intrusion, thoughJoyce was not unwilling to be intruded upon. So he was unexpectedlyreceptive when the Honorable Mrs. Reginald (Daisy) Fellowes, a wellknownfigurein society with literary pretensions, announced that shewished her group, Les Amis de 1914, to hold a celebration in Joyce'shonor. She made the usual roundabout approach through Leon, thencut through this folderol by suddenly appearing at Joyce's door and pushingin with a photographer at her heels. Her intention was to be photographedalone with Joyce, but Joyce insisted that Leon, who was present,join the group, added Eugene Jolas who appeared during the preparations,and even drew the buxom concierge into the picture in spite ofMrs. Fellowes's protests. 'This is wonderful; we can have a family group,'he said. 87But when the picture appeared only Joyce and Mrs. Fellowescould be seen, the others having been cut off. Nora was indignant.The meeting was arranged for February 23, 1934. Joyce thought itmight help to revive the interest in Finnegans Wake which was flaggingas publication was delayed. The Honorable Mrs. Fellowes presided, testifyingto her enthusiasm for Joyce's work. When she sailed her yacht inthe Aegean, she said, i never lie in my deck chair without a copy ofUlysses by my side.' Then Dujardin was called upon, to salute Joyce'sdevelopment of the monologue interieur; Louis Gillet and Leon-Paul Farguealso made speeches, and the actress Rachel Behrendt, who knewEnglish and was coached by Joyce, read fragments from Work in Progress.Throughout the meeting Joyce sat languid in his chair, his long, finehands clasped on his knees, his eyes cast down like a bashful boy's, andof course altogether silent, having refused the Honorable Mrs. Fellowes'invitation to reply on the grounds that, it's not polite to speak aboutoneself.' 88Afterwards, however, he sought to have Rachel Behrendt'sreading recorded by the British Broadcasting Corporation, and Maria Jo-