Le soir, fort tard, elle daignait venir écouter les doléances du prisonnier ; elle avait dit à son mari que le blanc-bec avait de l’argent, sur quoi le prudent geôlier lui avait donné carte blanche.
Late in the evening, she would deign to come in and listen to the prisoner's complaints; she had told her husband that the young greenhorn had money, after which the prudent gaoler allowed her a free hand.