And yet he reckoned, and with reason, on Milady. He had divined in the past of this woman terrible things which his red mantle alone could cover; and he felt, from one cause or another, that this woman was his own, as she could look to no other but himself for a support superior to the danger which threatened her.
Por lo demás, contaba, y con razón, con Milady: había adivinado en el pasado de esta mujer esas cosas terribles que sólo su capa roja podía cubrir; y sentía que por una causa o por otra, esta mujer le era adicta, al no poder encontrar sino en él un apoyo superior al peligro que la amenazaba.