It was absolutely necessary, therefore, to think of something, and in this emergence recollecting _when_ she had seen him last in Hertfordshire, and feeling curious to know what he would say on the subject of their hasty departure, she observed:
Il fallait a tout prix trouver un sujet de conversation. Elizabeth se rappelant leur derniere rencontre en Hertfordshire, et curieuse de voir ce qu’il dirait sur le départ précipité de ses hôtes, fit cette remarque :