But from that moment she listened no more; and the chorus of the guests, the scene between Ashton and his servant, the grand duet in D major, all were for her as far off as if the instruments had grown less sonorous and the characters more remote. She remembered the games at cards at the druggist's, and the walk to the nurse's, the reading in the arbour, the tete-a-tete by the fireside—all that poor love, so calm and so protracted, so discreet, so tender, and that she had nevertheless forgotten.
Mais, à partir de ce moment, elle n’écouta plus; et le choeur des conviés, la scène d’Ashton et de son valet, le grand duo en ré majeur, tout passa pour elle dans l’éloignement, comme si les instruments fussent devenus moins sonores et les personnages plus reculés; elle se rappelait les parties de cartes chez le pharmacien, et la promenade chez la nourrice, les lectures sous la tonnelle, les tête-à-tête au coin du feu, tout ce pauvre amour si calme et si long, si discret, si tendre, et qu’elle avait oublié cependant.