"On one side she was bound inextricably to the bridegroom by the world, by her family, and by her own promise; on the other, the ambitious young man made no secret of what he was thinking and planning for himself, conducting himself towards her no more than a kind but not at all a tender brother, and speaking of his departure as immediately impending; and now it seemed as if her early childish spirit woke up again in her with all its spleen and violence, and was preparing itself in its distemper, on this higher stage of life, to work more effectively and destructively.
eta alde batetik munduak eta familiak, senargaiak eta bere hitzak era ezin banatuzkoan loturik zeukala, bestetik, mutil goranahiak ez zion neskari inolako sekreturik gordetzen bere ideia, plan eta asmoei buruz, berarekiko leial bat bezala bakarrik agertzen zen, ezta neba samur gisa ere, eta berehala abiatu behar zuelakoaz ere hitz egiten zuen, bere haur-izpiritua berriro iratzarriko balitz bezala bere oldar eta suhar guztiekin, eta orain bizitzako maila gorago batean era garrantzizkoago eta kaltegarriago batez jokatzeko prestatuko balitz bezala.