Una bella part dels murmuris havia estat ocasionada per un esdeveniment més o menys inavesat: l'entrada de visitants: l'advocat Thatcher, acompanyat de un home molt vell i molt feble, i d'un bell senyor cavallerívol, de mitja edat i cabell gris d'acer, i una senyora tota digna, que era sens dubte la muller de aquest.
A good part of the whispering had been occasioned by an event which was more or less rare--the entrance of visitors: lawyer Thatcher, accompanied by a very feeble and aged man; a fine, portly, middle-aged gentleman with iron-gray hair; and a dignified lady who was doubtless the latter's wife.