Only a jealous fool of a husband can have anything to say against it.

A husband should not have such thoughts, and especially should not thrust his nose into these affairs, or prevent them.

And yet, everybody knows that precisely in these occupations, especially in music, many adulteries originate in our society.
"I had evidently embarrassed them, because for some time I was unable to say anything.

I was like a bottle suddenly turned upside down, from which the water does not run because it is too full.

I wanted to insult the man, and to drive him away, but I could do nothing of the kind.
On the contrary, I felt that I was disturbing them, and that it was my fault.