Mais au moment où le concert allait commencer, la princesse ayant permis aux dames de s’asseoir, Clélia fort peu alerte pour ces sortes de choses, se laissa ravir les meilleures places auprès de la princesse, et fut obligée de venir chercher un fauteuil au fond de la salle, jusque dans le coin reculé où Fabrice s’était réfugié.
But at the moment when the concert was about to begin, the Princess having given the ladies leave to be seated, Clelia, who was not at all alert in that sort of thing, let all the best places near the Princess be snatched from her, and was obliged to go and look for a chair at the end of the room, in the very corner to which Fabrizio had withdrawn.