She could not have expressed the sequence of thoughts that made her smile, but the last deduction was that her husband, in extolling his brother and depreciating himself, was not quite sincere.
No habría podido decir qué camino seguían sus pensamientos para llevarla a sonreír, pero consideraba que su marido, al elogiar de aquel modo a su hermano y rebajarse tanto él no era sincero.