"Your behaviour was certainly very wrong," said she; "because--to say nothing of my own conviction, our relations were all led away by it to fancy and expect WHAT, as you were THEN situated, could never be."
"Je gedrag was werkelijk zeer verkeerd," zeide zij; "omdat, mijn eigen overtuiging nu nog daargelaten, onze verwanten er allen aanleiding in vonden, zich te verbeelden en te verwachten, wat in de omstandigheden, waarin je _toen_ verkeerde, nooit gebeuren kon."