Un seul mot de tout ce discours avait frappé Clélia, c’était la menace d’être mise au couvent, et par conséquent éloignée de la citadelle, et au moment encore où la vie de Fabrice semblait ne tenir qu’à un fil, car il ne se passait pas de mois que le bruit de sa mort prochaine ne courût de nouveau à la ville et à la cour.
One passage alone in the whole of this speech had struck Clelia; this was the threat to send her to a convent, and thereby remove her from the citadel, at the moment, moreover, when Fabrizio's life seemed to be hanging only by a thread, for not a month passed in which the rumour of his approaching death did not run afresh through the town and through the court. Whatever arguments she might use, she could not make up her mind to run this risk.