The girl knew that her father and mother had quarrelled, and that her mother could not be cheerful, and also that her father must know this, so that his putting the question to her so lightly was all pretence, and she blushed for him.
La pequeña sabía que entre sus padres había sucedido algo, que mamá no estaba contenta y que a papá debía constarle y no había de fingir ignorarlo preguntando con aquel tono indiferente. Se ruborizó, pues, por la mentira de su padre.