The truth is, he ought to have been trusted with everything, for no man in the world could deserve better of a wife; but this was a thing I knew not how to open to him, and yet having nobody to disclose any part of it to, the burthen was too heavy for my mind; for let them say what they please of our sex not being able to keep a secret, my life is a plain conviction to me of the contrary; but be it our sex, or the man's sex, a secret of moment should always have a confidant, a bosom friend, to whom we may communicate the joy of it, or the grief of it, be it which it will, or it will be a double weight upon the spirits, and perhaps become even insupportable in itself; and this I appeal to all human testimony for the truth of.
La vérité est que j'eusse dû lui confier tout, car aucun homme ne pouvait mériter mieux d'une femme, mais c'était là une chose que je ne savais comment lui ouvrir, et pourtant, n'ayant personne, à qui en révéler la moindre part, le fardeau était trop lourd pour mon esprit.