Le lendemain matin, dès les dix heures, Clélia ayant paru à la volière, il lui demanda, avec un ton de politesse cérémonieuse bien nouveau entre eux, pourquoi elle ne lui avait pas dit tout simplement qu’elle aimait le marquis Crescenzi, et qu’elle était sur le point de l’épouser.
The following morning, at ten o'clock, Clelia having appeared in the aviary, he asked her in a tone of ceremonious politeness which was quite novel between them, why she had not told him frankly that she was in love with the Marchese Crescenzi, and that she was on the point of marrying him.