The necessity to refrain from speaking to her of serious, reasonable matters, since they were on opposite sides, added, without his suspecting it, to the happiness that he owed to her and to the power which she was acquiring over him.
La nécessité de ne pas lui parler de choses tristes et raisonnables, puisqu’ils étaient de partis contraires, ajoutait, sans qu’il s’en doutât, au bonheur qu’il lui devait et à l’empire qu’elle acquérait sur lui.