"Listen," said the priest at last, and a singular calm had come over him; "you shall know all I am about to tell you that which I have hitherto hardly dared to say to myself, when furtively interrogating my conscience at those deep hours of the night when it is so dark that it seems as though God no longer saw us.
Tu vas tout savoir. Je vais te dire ce que jusqu’ici j’ai à peine osé me dire à moi-même, lorsque j’interrogeais furtivement ma conscience à ces heures profondes de la nuit où il y a tant de ténèbres qu’il semble que Dieu ne nous voit plus.