原文
A week after the tea at the manse Diana Barry gave a party.
"Small and select," Anne assured Marilla. "Just the girls in our class."
They had a very good time and nothing untoward happened until after tea, when they found themselves in the Barry garden, a little tired of all their games and ripe for any enticing form of mischief which might present itself. This presently took the form of "daring."
Daring was the fashionable amusement among the Avonlea small fry just then. It had begun among the boys, but soon spread to the girls, and all the silly things that were done in Avonlea that summer because the doers thereof were "dared" to do them would fill a book by themselves.
語彙など
- manse:館,大邸宅
- select:選び出す
- assure:保証する
- untoward:困った,不幸な
- ripe for:〜の機が熟して
- enticing:魅惑的な,誘惑的な
- mischief:いたずら
- present itself:(考えが)浮かぶ,到来する
- presently:現在
- fashionable amusement:流行の娯楽
- small fry:子供たち
- silly:ばかげた
- doer:行為者,実行家
- thereof:その
- fill:記入する