My mother was frighted to the last degree at the very thoughts of it; but I bid her be easy, told her I would do it gradually and softly, and with all the art and good-humour I was mistress of, and time it also as well as I could, taking him in good-humour too.
Enfin je me résolus à un parti désespéré, et je dis à ma mère que ma résolution était, en somme, que je lui dirais tout moi-même.