She had spoken up to this moment without vehemence or outward sign of emotion, gently, reasoningly, only trying to explain. But her emotion had been ineffectually smothered, and it betrayed itself at last in the trembling of her voice.

直到这一刻，她一直在说话，没有激烈的情绪，也没有外在的情感迹象，温和地，理性地，只是试图解释。但她的情绪并没有被有效地抑制住，它最终在她声音的颤抖中暴露了自己。