La marquise del Dongo, maintenant la moins romanesque des femmes, en fut si profondément alarmée qu’elle crut qu’à la tour Farnèse on lui avait fait prendre quelque poison lent.
The Marchesa del Dongo, now the least romantic of women, was so greatly alarmed by it that she imagined that they must, in the Torre Farnese, have given him some slow poison.