La comtesse s’était si souvent ennuyée au château de Grianta, vis-à-vis des figures poudrées de son frère, de son neveu et de quelques ennuyeux bien pensants du voisinage, qu’elle ne songea pas à s’occuper de la coiffure de son nouvel adorateur.
The Contessa had spent so many weary hours at the castle of Grianta, facing the powdered heads of her brother and nephew, and of various politically sound bores of the neighbourhood, that it never occurred to her to give a thought to her new adorer's style in hairdressing.