I was surprised at this talk, and began to consider very seriously what the meaning of it must be; and it presently occurred to me that my friend, who called him brother, had represented me in colours which were not my due; and I thought, since it was come to that pitch, that I would know the bottom of it before I went out of England, and before I should put myself into I knew not whose hands in a strange country.
Je fus surprise de ce langage et commençai de me demander quel pouvait en être le sens, quand soudain il me vint à la pensée que mon amie, qui l'appelait son frère, m'avait représentée à lui sous de fausses couleurs; et je me dis que j'irais au fond de cette affaire avant de quitter l'Angleterre et avant de me remettre en des mains inconnues, dans un pays étranger.