And I was afraid, not for myself, but I was afraid that I was going to lose him, that he was going to sink into one of his states, and that I would ruin his relationship with the violin if I started talking about scales and arpeggios and other exciting forms of didactic violin pedagogy.
Eu fiquei com medo, não por mim, mas fiquei com medo de o perder, de que ele entrasse numa das suas crises, e que eu estragasse  a sua relação com o violino, se começasse a falar de escalas, de arpejos e de outras formas emocionantes da pedagogia didática do violino.