While settling this point, she was suddenly roused by the sound of the door-bell, and her spirits were a little fluttered by the idea of its being Colonel Fitzwilliam himself, who had once before called late in the evening, and might now come to inquire particularly after her.
Elle en était la de ses réflexions lorsque le son de la cloche d’entrée la fit tressaillir. Était-ce, par hasard, le colonel Fitzwilliam, dont les visites étaient quelquefois assez tardives, qui venait prendre de ses nouvelles ?