A quiet drama hums below their repose, too.

在她们的娴静之态下，也上演着幽然心曲。

She must be a woman of complicated character, and there was something dramatic in the contrast of that with her demure appearance.

看来她一定是一个性格非常复杂的女人，同她那端庄娴静的外表倒构成极富于戏剧性的。

At this Mrs. Adams abandoned her air of amusement, looked hurt, and glanced at the demure Miss Perry across the table.

当斯夫人话， 脸上露出兴高采烈的样子， 看上去很受伤， 隔着桌子瞥一眼娴静的佩里小姐。

She showed him her ball book with demure satisfaction when he strolled instead of rushed up to claim her for the next, a glorious polka redowa.

当他漫步而不是冲上前来要求她为下一个光荣的波尔卡舞会表演时，她带着娴静的满足感向他展示她的舞会簿。

Many a princess who has become a bye-word for pride has given infinitely more attention to what her courtiers have been doing around her than did this apparently gentle and demure woman to anything which her husband either said or did.

许多已经成为傲慢代名词的公主她的廷臣们在她身边所做的事情给予无限多的关注， 而不是个表面上温柔娴静的女人她丈夫所说或所做的任何事情的关注。