I had stayed here five weeks, and lived very comfortably indeed (the secret anxiety of my mind excepted); but when I received this letter I looked pleasantly again, and told my landlady that I had received a letter from my spouse in Ireland, that I had the good news of his being very well, but had the bad news that his business would not permit him to come away so soon as he expected, and so I was like to go back again without him.
J'étais restée là cinq semaines et j'avais vécu en grand confort vraiment, si j'excepte la secrète anxiété de mon esprit; mais quand je reçus cette lettre, je repris ma mine agréable, et dis à mon hôtesse que je venais de recevoir une lettre de mon époux d'Irlande, que j'avais d'excellentes nouvelles de sa santé, mais la mauvaise nouvelle que ses affaires ne lui permettaient pas de partir si tôt qu'il l'eût espéré, si bien qu'il était probable que j'allais rentrer sans lui.