Ce qui choqua Parme dans cette occurrence, ce fut que même un mois après, quand on cessa de parler uniquement de la promenade aux flambeaux, personne, grâce à la prudence du comte Mosca, n’avait pu deviner le nom du rival qui avait voulu enlever la Fausta au comte M***.
What shocked Parma about this occurrence was that even a month afterwards, when people had ceased to speak of nothing but the torchlight procession, nobody, thanks to the prudence of Conte Mosca, had been able to guess the name of the rival who had sought to carry off Fausta from Conte M------.