My heart said yes to this offer at first word, but it was necessary to play the hypocrite a little more with him; so I seemed to decline the motion with some warmth, and besides a little condemning the thing as unfair, told him that such a proposal could be of no signification, but to entangle us both in great difficulties; for if he should not at last obtain the divorce, yet we could not dissolve the marriage, neither could we proceed in it; so that if he was disappointed in the divorce, I left him to consider what a condition we should both be in.
Mon coeur répondit «oui» à cette offre dès les premiers mots, mais il était nécessaire de jouer un peu l'hypocrite avec lui, de sorte que je parus décliner la motion avec quelque animation, sous le prétexte qu'il n'avait point de bonne foi.