She was intent on her work, in which her whole thoughts seemed absorbed: on her hard forehead, and in her commonplace features, was nothing either of the paleness or desperation one would have expected to see marking the countenance of a woman who had attempted murder, and whose intended victim had followed her last night to her lair, and (as I believed), charged her with the crime she wished to perpetrate.
Estaba absorta en su trabajo, al que parecía dedicar todas las energías de su mente. En sus vulgares rasgos no se percibía la palidez ni la desesperación que debían esperarse en una mujer que hacía poco intentara cometer un asesinato y cuya víctima debía, según mis suposiciones, haberle reprochado el crimen que tratara de perpetrar.