You may easily believe, that when the plot was thus, as they thought, broke out, and that every one thought they knew how things were carried, it was not so difficult or so dangerous for the elder brother, whom nobody suspected of anything, to have a freer access to me than before; nay, the mother, which was just as he wished, proposed it to him to talk with Mrs. Betty.
Vous pouvez facilement penser que le secret étant, comme ils croyaient, découvert, il n'était plus si difficile ni si dangereux pour le frère aîné, que personne ne soupçonnait de rien, d'avoir accès plus libre jusqu'à moi; oui, et même sa mère lui proposa de causer avec Mme Betty, ce qui était justement ce qu'il désirait: