I almost expected a rebuff for this hardly well-timed question, but, on the contrary, waking out of his scowling abstraction, he turned his eyes towards me, and the shade seemed to clear off his brow.
Mi aspettava a essere sgridata per quella domanda intempestiva, ma invece uscendo dalla meditazione, volse lo sguardo su di me e la fronte parve che si rischiarasse.