La conversation, l’échange de pensées froides désormais possible entre eux, eût peut-être semblé agréable à d’autres : mais eux se souvenaient encore, la duchesse surtout, de ce qu’était leur conversation avant ce fatal combat avec Giletti qui les avait séparés.
The conversation, the exchange of cold thoughts that from then onwards was possible between them might perhaps have seemed pleasant to others; but they remembered still, the Duchessa especially, what their conversation had been before that fatal fight with Giletti which had set them apart.