When we went in, and I had removed her bonnet and coat, I took her on my knee; kept her there an hour, allowing her to prattle as she liked: not rebuking even some little freedoms and trivialities into which she was apt to stray when much noticed, and which betrayed in her a superficiality of character, inherited probably from her mother, hardly congenial to an English mind.
Cuando volvimos a casa y la quité el sombrero y el abrigo, la hice sentar en mis rodillas y durante una hora charlé con ella de las cosas que le complacían y que eran, principalmente, frivolidades sin sustancia, probable herencia de su madre y difíciles de concebir para una mentalidad inglesa.