This was the most provoking thing he could have said to me, for I really wanted his further importunities, that I might be prevailed with to bring out that which indeed it was like death to me to conceal; so I answered him plainly that I could not say I was glad not to be importuned, thought I could not tell how to comply.
C'était la chose la plus désagréable qu'il pût me dire, car vraiment je désirais qu'il continuât à m'importuner afin de m'obliger à avouer ce dont la dissimulation me semblait être la mort; de sorte que je répondis tout net que je ne pouvais dire que je serais heureuse de ne plus être importunée, quoique ne sachant nullement comment céder.