Le résultat de milliers d’observations sans cesse renouvelées, mais aussi sans cesse mises en doute, était ceci : « Tous ses gestes volontaires disent non, mais ce qui est involontaire dans le mouvement de ses yeux semble avouer qu’elle prend de l’amitié pour moi. »
The result of thousands of observations, incessantly repeated, but also incessantly subjected to doubt, was as follows: "All her deliberate gestures say no, but what is involuntary in the movement of her eyes seems to admit that she is forming an affection for me."