Après lui avoir demandé sa parole de ne point abuser de la confiance qu’il allait lui faire, il avoua que son frère, abusé par un faux point d’honneur, et qui s’était cru bravé et perdu dans l’opinion par la fuite de Fabrice, avait cru devoir se venger.
After asking her to give him her word that she would not abuse the confidence he was about to repose in her, he admitted that his brother, led astray by a false point of honour, and thinking himself challenged and lowered in public opinion by Fabrizio's escape, had felt bound to avenge himself.