She was intent on her work, in which her whole thoughts seemed absorbed: on her hard forehead, and in her commonplace features, was nothing either of the paleness or desperation one would have expected to see marking the countenance of a woman who had attempted murder, and whose intended victim had followed her last night to her lair, and (as I believed), charged her with the crime she wished to perpetrate.
Pareva completamente assorta nel lavoro, e i suoi tratti duri e volgari non erano improntati del pallore disperato, che mi sarei aspettata di trovare sul volto di una donna che aveva tentato di commettere un delitto, e la cui vittima erasi salvata e avevale dichiarato di conoscere il delitto. Ero meravigliata e confusa.