When Madam Bovary had gone, he tried timidly and in the same terms to hazard one or two of the more anodyne observations he had heard from his mamma. Emma proved to him with a word that he was mistaken, and sent him off to his patients.
Quand madame Bovary était partie, il essayait de hasarder timidement, et dans les mêmes termes, une ou deux des plus anodines observations qu’il avait entendu faire à sa maman; Emma, lui prouvant d’un mot qu’il se trompait, le renvoyait à ses malades.