Now I could by no means like her project; I though it looked too much like prompting him, which indeed he did not want, and I clearly saw that I should lose nothing by being backward to ask, so I took her up short.
Je n'étais nullement satisfaite de son projet; je pensais que cela aurait trop l'apparence de le pousser, ce dont il n'y avait aucun besoin, et je vis que je ne perdrais rien en feignant de me refuser au jeu, de sorte que je la repris de court: