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Yet it seems to me your life is hardly secure while she stays.
我總覺得只要她在，你就不得安寧。
Never fear — I will take care of myself.
別怕 — 我會照顧好自己的。
Is the danger you apprehended last night gone by now, sir?
你昨晚擔心的危險現在沒有了嗎，先生？
I cannot vouch for that till Mason is out of England, nor even then.
梅森不離開英格蘭，我就無法擔保。甚至他走了也不行。
To live, for me, Jane, is to stand on a crater-crust which may crack and spue fire any day.活著對我來說，簡，好像是站在火山表面，哪一天地殼都可能裂開，噴出火來。
But Mr. Mason seems a man easily led.
可是梅森先生好像是容易擺布的。
Your influence, sir, is evidently potent with him.
你的影響，先生，對他明顯起著作用。
He will never set you at defiance or wilfully injure you.
他決不會同你作對，或者有意傷害你。
Oh, no! Mason will not defy me, nor, knowing it, will he hurt me.
呵，不錯！梅森是不會跟我作對，也不會明明知道而來傷害我。
But, unintentionally, he might in a moment, by one careless word, deprive me, if not of life, yet for ever of happiness.
不過，無意之中他可能因為一時失言，即使不會使我送命，也會斷送我一生的幸福。
Tell him to be cautious, sir. Let him know what you fear, and show him how to avert the danger.
告訴他小心從事，先生。讓他知道你的憂慮，指點他怎樣來避開危險。
He laughed sardonically, hastily took my hand, and as hastily threw it from him.
他嘲弄地哈哈大笑起來，一下子抓住我的手，一下子又把它甩掉了。
If I could do that, simpleton, where would the danger be? Annihilated in a moment.
要是我能那樣做，傻瓜，那還有什么危險可言。頃刻之間就可排除。
Ever since I have known Mason, I have only had to say to him 'Do that,' and the thing has been done.
自我認得梅森以來，我只要對他說‘那么干’，他就會那么辦。
But I cannot give him orders in this case.
不過在這件事情上我可不能對他發號施令。
I cannot say 'Beware of harming me, Richard;' for it is imperative that I should keep him ignorant that harm to me is possible.
不能同他說‘當心傷著我，理查德，’因為我必須將他蒙在鼓里，使他不知道可能會傷著我。
