They were at once intelligiblewithout question or explanation, and the poor women were to be pitied,though the nature of the grief of the more elegant of the two was notprecisely known.
On comprenait tout desuite, sans explication, et sans recherche, et on plaignait les pauvresfemmes, bien qu'on ne sût pas au juste la nature du chagrin de la plusdistinguée.