He recognised himself as being personally interested in the wager, and trembled at the thought that he might have been the means of losing it by his unpardonable folly of the night before.
Het was of hij zelf belang had in die weddenschap en hij sidderde bij de gedachte, dat hij zelf de verwezenlijking in gevaar had kunnen brengen door zijne onvergeeflijke nieuwsgierigheid.