Chapter 2-2

Accustomary

Without any reluctance 十分愿意

And the confidential discourse of the two ladies was therefore at an end, to which both of them submitted without any reluctance, for nothing had been said on the other side to make them dislike each other less than they had done before.

for self-interest alone could induce a woman to keep a man to an engagement of which she seemed so thoroughly aware that he was weary.

Weary 厌倦的 疲倦的

confidante 密友  知己

indulgence 沉迷；放纵，纵容