However, it was now too late for these lugubrious thoughts; and, bracing herself, she began to frame the new reply to Bishop Helmsdale—the plain, unvarnished tale that was to supplant the undivulging answer first written.

然而，现在这些悲哀的想法已经来不及了。打起精神，她开始构思给赫尔姆斯代尔主教的新答复——用朴实无华的故事取代最初写下的坦诚答复。