Yet in spite of this he felt that though at first while his love was strong he would have been able, had he earnestly desired it, to pull that love out of his heart – yet now when he imagined, as he did at that moment, that he felt no love for her, he knew that the bond between them could not be broken.
Y, no obstante, experimentaba la sensación de que aquel amor que antes, cuando estaba en toda su fuerza, hubiese podido arrancar de su alma, de habérselo propuesto firmemente, ahora le sería imposible arrancarlo. No; ahora no podía separarse de ella.