Two minutes: he gives check; her mind is now in a painful state of tension, and she shades her face with her hand.

两分钟：他给支票；她的头脑现在处于一种痛苦的紧张状态，她用手遮住脸。

Her unhappy caution to him not to write too soon was a comfortable license in his present state of tension about sublime scientific things, which knew not woman, nor her sacrifices, nor her fears.

她不高兴地警告他不要过早写信，这是他目前对崇高科学事物的紧张状态的一种安慰，这种状态不了解女人，也不了解她的牺牲，也不了解她的恐惧。