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At breakfast I announced to Diana and Mary that I was going a journey, and should be absent at least four days.
早餐時，我向黛安娜和瑪麗宣布，我要出門去，至少離開四天。
"Alone, Jane?" they asked.
“一個人去嗎，簡？”她們問。
"Yes; it was to see or hear news of a friend about who m I had for some time been uneasy."
“是的，去看看，或者打聽一下一個朋友的消息，我已為他擔心了好久了。”
They might have said, as I have no doubt they thought,
正如我明白她們在想的那樣，她們本可以說，
that they had believed me to be without any friends save them: for, indeed, I had often said so;
一直以為除了她們，我沒有別的朋友，其實我也總是這么講的。
but, with their true natural delicacy, they abstained from comment, except that Diana asked me if I was sure I was well enough to travel.
但出于天生真誠的體貼，她們沒有發表任何議論，除了黛安娜問我身體是否確實不錯，是否適宜旅行。
I looked very pale, she observed.
她說我臉色蒼白。
I replied, that nothing ailed me save anxiety of mind, which I hoped soon to alleviate.
我回答說沒有什么不適，只不過內心有些不安，但相信不久就會好的。
It was easy to make my further arrangements; for I was troubled with no inquiries -- no surmises.
于是接下來的安排就容易了，因為我不必為刨根究底和東猜西想而煩惱。
Having once explained to them that I could not now be explicit about my plans,
我一向她們解釋，現在還不能明確宣布我的計劃，
they kindly and wisely acquiesced in the silence with which I pursued them,
她們便聰明而善解人意地默許我悄然進行，
according to me the privilege of free action I should under similar circumstances have accorded them.
給了我在同樣情況下也會給予她們的自由行動的特權。
