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.
E eu fiquei com medo, não por mim, mas porque eu tinha medo de que eu iria perdê-lo, que ele iria se afundar em um desses estados, e que eu arruinaria sua relação com o violino se começasse a falar sobre escalas arpejos e outros jeitos empolgantes de se ensinar violino.