Il me méprise, et, dès qu’il pourra écrire à la duchesse, il parlera de mon manque d’égard, et la duchesse me croira une petite fille bien fausse ; car enfin ce soir elle a pu me croire remplie de sensibilité pour son malheur. »
'Worthy daughter of a gaoler!' he will have been saying to himself. He despises me, and, as soon as he is able to write to the Duchessa, he will tell her of my want of consideration, and the Duchessa will think me a very deceitful little girl; for, after all, this evening she must have thought me full of sympathy with her in her trouble."