原文
"No; and oh, Anne, she says I'm never to play with you again. I've cried
and cried and I told her it wasn't your fault, but it wasn't any use. I
had ever such a time coaxing her to let me come down and say good-bye to
you. She said I was only to stay ten minutes and she's timing me by the
clock."
"Ten minutes isn't very long to say an eternal farewell in," said Anne tearfully. "Oh, Diana, will you promise faithfully never to forget me, the friend of your youth, no matter what dearer friends may caress thee?"
"Indeed I will," sobbed Diana, "and I'll never have another bosom friend--I don't want to have. I couldn't love anybody as I love you."
語彙など
- coax:なだめる,説得する
- time:〜の時間を計る
- eternal:永遠の
- farewell:別れ
- tearfully:泣きながら
- faithfully:忠実に
- no matter what:いかに〜しても
- caress:暖かくもてなす
- thee:youの古語
- sob:すすり泣く
- bosom friend:親友