Malgré ce raisonnement assez simple, il ne put s’empêcher de passer trois fois à sa porte ; à la vérité, pour n’être pas remarqué, il alla chez elle à pied.
In spite of this fairly obvious conclusion, he could not restrain himself from going three times to her door; as a matter of fact, in order not to be noticed, he went to her house on foot.