He had not understood, he said, that I was becoming attached to her, but when he saw with his own eyes that it was really so, and that she might be taken away from him, it gave him such a shock that for a time he was not responsible for what he said or did.
No se había percatado, ha dicho, de mis sentimientos hacia ella, y cuando ha visto con sus propios ojos que era efectivamente así y que podía perderla, la intensidad del sobresalto ha hecho que durante algún tiempo no fuera responsable ni de sus palabras ni de sus acciones.