Au milieu de ces réflexions fort sérieuses et qui occupaient toute l’âme de Clélia, les propos complimenteurs qui l’entouraient toujours lui semblèrent plus désagréables encore que de coutume.
Breaking in upon these highly serious reflexions, which were absorbing the whole of Clelia's mind, the complimentary speeches which always surrounded her seemed to her even more distasteful than usual. To escape from them she went across to an open window, half screened by a taffeta curtain; she hoped that no one would be so bold as to follow her into this sort of sanctuary.