if absolute choice had been given her she would have preferred never to find herself alone with him; and in fact, though she thought him a most brilliant, distinguished, and well-meaning person, she had exercised a much larger amount of tremulous tact than he had ever suspected, to circumvent the accident of tete-a-tete.
Aukeran eman izan baliote, Felixekin bakarka egon beharrik ez izatea aukeratuko zukeen; eta, izan ere, Felixi oso pertsona argia, bikaina eta asmo onekoa irizten bazion ere, Felixek susmatu baino tentu eta dardara handiagoak erabili zituen Charlottek harekin tête-à-tête baten arriskuari itzulinguru egiteko.