« S’il me semble peu instruit, se disait-elle, à moi qui ne sais rien, Robert, qui est si savant, trouverait son éducation absolument manquée ; or maintenant il faut du mérite. »
"If he appears to me to have learned little," she said to herself, "to me who know nothing, Robert, who is so clever, would find that his education had been entirely neglected; and in these days one must have merit."