He felt that instead of doing what he had meant to do and –warning his wife that she was making a mistake in the eyes of the world, he was involuntarily getting excited about a matter which concerned her conscience, and was struggling against some barrier of his imagination.
En lugar de por el motivo por el que se proponía advertir a su mujer de su falta a los ojos del mundo, se sentía inquieto precisamente por lo que se refería a la conciencia de ella y le parecía como si se estrellara contra un muro erigido por él.