Elizabeth, feeling all the more than common awkwardness and anxiety of his situation, now forced herself to speak; and immediately, though not very fluently, gave him to understand that her sentiments had undergone so material a change, since the period to which he alluded, as to make her receive with gratitude and pleasure his present assurances.
Désireuse de mettre un terme a son anxiété, Elizabeth retrouva enfin assez d’empire sur elle-meme pour lui répondre, et sans tarder, bien qu’en phrases entrecoupées, elle lui fit entendre que depuis l’époque a laquelle il faisait allusion, ses sentiments avaient subi un changement assez profond pour qu’elle put accueillir maintenant avec joie le nouvel aveu des siens.