And so well was she able to answer her own expectations, that when she joined them at dinner only two hours after she had first suffered the extinction of all her dearest hopes, no one would have supposed from the appearance of the sisters, that Elinor was mourning in secret over obstacles which must divide her for ever from the object of her love, and that Marianne was internally dwelling on the perfections of a man, of whose whole heart she felt thoroughly possessed, and whom she expected to see in every carriage which drove near their house.
Y tan bien cumplió sus propias expectativas, que cuando se les unió en el momento de la cena tan sólo dos horas después de haber asistido a la muerte de sus más caras esperanzas, nadie podría haber sospechado, por la apariencia de las hermanas, que Elinor vivía un secreto duelo frente a las barreras que para siempre la separarían del objeto de su amor, y que Marianne se solazaba en su interior en las perfecciones de un hombre de cuyo corazón se sentía enteramente prisionera, y a quien esperaba ver en cada carruaje que se acercaba a su casa.