Clélia était profondément malheureuse, et sans s’avouer bien précisément le genre d’intérêt qu’elle prenait à son sort : « Certes, se disait-elle, si on le conduit à la mort, je m’enfuirai dans un couvent, et de la vie je ne reparaîtrai dans cette société de la cour, elle me fait horreur.
It was true that this attractive young man was attached to another woman! Clelia was profoundly unhappy, and without admitting to herself at all precisely the kind of interest that she took in his fate: "Certainly," she said to herself, "if they lead him out to die, I shall fly to a convent, and never in my life will I reappear in that society of the court; it horrifies me.