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Next morning they went up to the center of London and Claire presented her mother with fifty pounds. The woman got flushed.
第二天上午母女二人去了倫敦市中心，克萊爾給了她母親50英鎊，母親高興得臉都紅了。
"You always had a good heart, too good," she said to her daughter, as her eyes beheld racks of coats, raincoats, skirts on spinning hangers, and all kinds and colours of hats.
“你總是心腸那么好，你心腸太好了，”她對(duì)女兒說(shuō)。此刻她的目光正好落到貨架上的大衣、雨衣，旋轉(zhuǎn)衣架上的裙子以及不同款式和不同顏色的帽子上。
"Try them on," Claire said. "I have to make a phone call."
“試試這些吧，”克萊爾說(shuō)，“我得去打個(gè)電話。”
There were guests due to visit her that night—it had been arranged weeks before—but as they were bohemian people, she could not see her mother suffering them, or them suffering her mother. There was the added complication that they were a "trio"—one man and two women; his wife and his mistress. At that point in their lives the wife was noticeably pregnant.
那天晚上有客人要到她家來(lái)——這是幾個(gè)星期前安排好的——不過(guò)由于他們都是放蕩 不羈的藝術(shù)家，她既不能讓他們?nèi)撬赣H生氣，也不能讓她母親惹得他們不快。這幾個(gè)人的“三角”關(guān)系使得情況更加復(fù)雜——一個(gè)男人和兩個(gè)女人；兩個(gè)女人分別是這個(gè)男人的妻子和情人，此刻那位妻子還明顯懷有身孕。
