Mme. Guemene was reading aloud, and everybody was listening to her with attention with the exception of the queen, who had, on the contrary, desired this reading in order that she might be able, while feigning to listen, to pursue the thread of her own thoughts.
La señora de Guéménée leía, y todo el mundo escuchaba con atención a la lectora, a excepción de la reina que, por el contrario, había provocado aquella lectura a fin de poder seguir el hilo de sus propios pensamientos mientras fingía escuchar.