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"Did your wife hear all this?"
"你妻子聽到了這一切了嗎？"
"No, thank goodness, she did not."
"沒有，謝天謝地，她沒有聽到。"
"And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?"
"后來，有人見到她正是和這個女人走在一起？"
"Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as so serious.
"是的，這正是蘇格蘭場的雷斯垂德先生為什么把這件事看得如此嚴重的緣故。
It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid some terrible trap for her."
據認為，弗洛拉把我的妻子誘騙出去，并且對她設下了某種可怕的圈套。"
"Well, it is a possible supposition."
"噢，這是一種可能的推測。"
"You think so, too?"
"你也這樣想嗎？"
"I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon this as likely?"
"我并沒有說很可能是這樣，但是你自己也并不把這看作是可能的吧？"
"I do not think Flora would hurt a fly."
"我認為弗洛拉是連只蒼蠅都不肯傷害的。"
"Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray what is your own theory as to what took place?"
"可是，妒忌是能奇妙地改變人的性格的。請你告訴我，對于這件事，你自己是怎么分析的呢？"
"Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I have given you all the facts.
"哦，真是，我到這里來是尋求解答的，不是來提出見解的。我已經把全部事實告訴你了。
Since you ask me, however, I may say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of this affair,
既然你問我，我也許可以說，在我看來可能是由于這件事對她的刺激，
the consciousness that she had made so immense a social stride,
以及她意識到她的社會地位一下子提高了那么多，
had the effect of causing some little nervous disturbance in my wife."
這就造成我妻子精神有點錯亂。"
