Le prince est outré, et je ne sais pourquoi, contre la Sanseverina (trois jours auparavant le Rassi eût dit la duchesse, mais, comme toute la ville, il savait la rupture avec le premier ministre).
The Prince is vexed, and I do not know why, with the Sanseverina." (Three days earlier Rassi would have said "the Duchessa," but, like everyone in the town, he knew of her breach with the Prime Minister.)