It was as if there was something that she could not, and would not, make clear to herself, or as if, as soon as she began to speak about this matter, she, the real Anna, withdrew into herself and another woman appeared who was strange and alien to him, whom he feared and did not like, and who resisted him. But to-day he decided to speak out.
Se diría que existía algo que Ana no quería o no podía aclarar consigo misma, como si cada vez que empezaba a hablar de aquello la verdadera Ana se ensimismara y resultase otra mujer, extraña a él, una mujer a quien no amaba, a la que temía y que le rechazaba.