The parents were there, and besides he still had for her a feeling, half of friendship and half of spite, which prevented him from treating her as a girl to be desired, in the midst of the abandonment of their now common life in dressing, at meals, during work, where nothing of them remained secret, not even their most intimate needs.
Les parents étaient la, et il gardait en outre pour elle un sentiment fait d'amitié et de rancune, qui l'empechait de la traiter en fille qu'on désire, au milieu des abandons de leur vie devenue commune, a la toilette, aux repas, pendant le travail, sans que rien d'eux ne leur restât secret, pas meme les besoins intimes.