She was trying to do what she had attempted ten times already during those three days, to sort out her own and her children's clothes to take to her mother's; but she could not bring herself to do it, and said again as she had done after each previous attempt, that things could not remain as they were – that she must do something to punish and humiliate him, and to revenge herself if only for a small part of the pain he had caused her.
Y nunca conseguía llevarlo a cabo. Como todos los días, se decía a sí misma que no era posible continuar así, que había que resolver algo, castigar a su marido, afrentarle, devolverle, aunque sólo fuese en parte, el dolor que él le había causado.