– Si ces espions eussent reconnu ma voix, dit la petite Bettina, j’étais poignardée sans rémission à ma rentrée au logis, et peut-être ma pauvre maîtresse avec moi.
"If those spies had recognised my voice," said little Bettina, "I should have been stabbed without mercy as soon as I got back to the house, and my poor mistress with me, perhaps."