La duchesse croyait n’aimer plus Fabrice d’amour, mais elle désirait encore passionnément le mariage de Clélia Conti avec le marquis ; il y avait là le vague espoir que peu à peu elle verrait disparaître la préoccupation de Fabrice.
The Duchessa imagined that it was no longer love that she felt for Fabrizio, but she was still passionately anxious for the marriage of Clelia Conti to the Marchese; " there lay in that the vague hope that gradually she might see Fabrizio's preoccupation disappear.