Pendant une bonne heure, nous avions gardé le silence ; chacun de nous, pour le premier observateur venu, aurait paru profondément et exclusivement occupé des tourbillons frisés de fumée qui chargeaient l’atmosphère de la chambre.
For one hour at least we had maintained a profound silence; while each, to any casual observer, might have seemed intently and exclusively occupied with the curling eddies of smoke that oppressed the atmosphere of the chamber.
J'avoue que les discussions qui ont suivi ont pris plus de temps qu'elles ne l'auraient fait si nous avions gardé cette conversation privée, mais elles étaient tellement plus productives que ça n'était pas du temps perdu, loin s'en faut.
It's true that the ensuing discussions took longer than they would have if we had kept the conversation private, but they were so much more productive that it was well worth the extra time.
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