He had not understood, he said, that I was becoming attached to her, but when he saw with his own eyes that it was really so, and that she might be taken away from him, it gave him such a shock that for a time he was not responsible for what he said or did.
Sokáig nem vette észre vonzódásomat a lányhoz, de mikor saját szemével látta, hogyan is áll a dolog, és hogy elvehetik tőle, olyan pánik lett úrrá rajta, hogy hirtelen azt sem tudta, mit tesz.