Although had she been asked whether she thought that if he did not believe in the future life he would perish, she would have had to acknowledge that he would, yet his lack of faith did not make her unhappy; and she, who accepted the doctrine that salvation was impossible for an unbeliever, while loving her husband's soul more than anything in the world, smiled when she thought of his disbelief and called him funny.
Pero, a pesar de que ella, en su fe ingenua, creía que no había salvación para el incrédulo, y que, por lo tanto, su marido estaba condenado, la falta de fe de aquel cuya alma le era más cara que cuanto existía en el mundo, no le producía la menor inquietud. Cada vez que pensaba en ello sonreía y se repetía para sí misma: «Es un tonto».