The secrecy with which everything had been carried on between them, was rationally treated as enormously heightening the crime, because, had any suspicion of it occurred to the others, proper measures would have been taken to prevent the marriage; and he called on Elinor to join with him in regretting that Lucy's engagement with Edward had not rather been fulfilled, than that she should thus be the means of spreading misery farther in the family.-- He thus continued: "Mrs. Ferrars has never yet mentioned Edward's name, which does not surprise us; but, to our great astonishment, not a line has been received from him on the occasion.
Trataba racionalmente el secreto con que habían manejado todo el asunto entre ellos como una enorme agravante del crimen, pues si los demás hubieran sospechado algo podrían haber tomado las medidas necesarias para evitar el matrimonio; y apelaba a Elinor para que antes se uniera a sus lamentos por el no cumplimiento del compromiso entre Lucy y Edward, que servirse de ello para seguir sembrando la desgracia en la familia. Y continuaba de la siguiente forma: “La señora Ferrars todavía no ha mencionado el nombre de Edward, lo que no nos sorprende; pero lo que nos asombra enormemente es no haber recibido ni una línea de él sobre lo ocurrido.