Vers les dix heures, un ami de la duchesse s’approcha et lui dit deux mots à voix basse ; elle pâlit excessivement ; Clélia lui prit la main et osa la lui serrer.
About ten o'clock, a friend of the Duchessa came up to her and murmured a few words; she turned extremely pale: Clelia took her hand and ventured to press it.