He felt that instead of doing what he had meant to do and –warning his wife that she was making a mistake in the eyes of the world, he was involuntarily getting excited about a matter which concerned her conscience, and was struggling against some barrier of his imagination.
Si accorgeva che invece di quello che voleva fare, mettere cioè in guardia la moglie da quello che poteva apparire un errore agli occhi del mondo, si agitava involontariamente per quello che riguardava la coscienza di lei, e lottava contro un muro creato dalla sua stessa immaginazione.