To lose a year, two years, three years, is to talk of an eternity; to return after the death or disgrace of the cardinal, perhaps; to return when d’Artagnan and his friends, happy and triumphant, should have received from the queen the reward they had well acquired by the services they had rendered her--these were devouring ideas that a woman like Milady could not endure.
Perder un año, dos años, tres años; es decir, una eternidad, volver cuando D'Artagnan, feliz y triunfante, hubiera recibido de la reina, junto con sus amigos, la recompensa que se habían granjeado de sobra con los servicios que habían prestado: era ésta una de esas ideas devoradoras que una mujer como Milady no podía soportar.