Am unangenehmsten war jener erste Augenblick gewesen, als er, heiter und zufrieden aus dem Theater heimkehrend, seine Frau, für die er eine gewaltig große Birne in der Hand trug, zu seinem Erstaunen weder im Salon noch in ihrem Zimmer vorgefunden und endlich im Schlafzimmer erblickt hatte, in der Hand den unglückseligen Brief, der alles verraten hatte.
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.