She did not wish to tell me beforehand, for she knew that, though I had consented to it, the sale, so necessary to our future happiness, was painful to me, and she feared to wound my self-respect in speaking to me about it.
Ez zidan abisurik utzi nahiko. Badaki gure etorkizuneko zorionerako derrigorrezkoa den salmenta hori onartzen dudala, baina min ematen didanez, nere sentikortasunik ez nahigabetzearren ez zidan aipatuko.