This circumstance was satisfactory: a private fear had haunted me, that in thus acting for myself, and by my own guidance, I ran the risk of getting into some scrape; and, above all things, I wished the result of my endeavours to be respectable, proper, _en regle_.
Mi rallegrai di quel fatto, perché temevo di cadere in qualche tranello e volevo soprattutto che il posto fosse onorevole; la vecchia signora era per me una garanzia.