She was trying, therefore, to put a good face on it, though with an anxious heart, as a housekeeper who was asking herself how she could make both ends meet now that the best part of her purse was going.
Elle tâchait donc de faire bon visage, le coeur anxieux, en ménagere qui se demandait comment elle joindrait les deux bouts, maintenant que commençait a partir le plus clair de sa bourse.