The worst moment had been when returning home from the theatre merry and satisfied, with an enormous pear in his hand for his wife, he did not find her in the drawing-room nor, to his great surprise, in the study, but at last saw her in her bedroom with the unlucky note which had betrayed him in her hand.
Lo peor había sido aquel primer momento, cuando al regreso del teatro, alegre y satisfecho con una manzana en las manos para su mujer, no la había hallado en el salón; asustado, la había buscado en su gabinete, para encontrarla al fin en su dormitorio examinando aquella malhadada carta que lo había descubierto todo.