Malgré la familiarité rude et dominatrice qu’elle avait avec sa camarade, je reconnaissais les gestes obséquieux et réticents, les brusques scrupules de son père. →
Despite the rude and hectoring familiarity with which she treated her companion I could recognise in her the obsequious and reticent advances, the abrupt scruples and restraints which had characterised her father.