原文
"Anne, come back," shrieked the latter, as soon as she found her voice.
"You'll ruin your dress in that wet grain . . . ruin it. She doesn't hear
me! Well, she'll never get that cow out by herself. I must go and help
her, of course."
Anne was charging through the grain like a mad thing. Diana hopped briskly down, tied the horse securely to a post, turned the skirt of her pretty gingham dress over her shoulders, mounted the fence, and started in pursuit of her frantic friend. She could run faster than Anne, who was hampered by her clinging and drenched skirt, and soon overtook her. Behind them they left a trail that would break Mr. Harrison's heart when he should see it.
語彙など
- shriek:金切り声を出す
- ruin:台無しにする
- grain:穀物
- charge:突撃する,かけ寄る
- hop:ピョンと飛び越す
- briskly:元気よく
- tie:結ぶ
- securely:しっかりと
- post:支柱
- gingham dress:ギンガムチェック[格子柄]の綿の服
- mount:〜に登る
- in pursuit of:〜を追いかけて
- frantic:取り乱した,大急ぎの
- hamper:妨げる
- cling:くっつく
- drench:びしょ濡れにする
- overtake:〜に追い付く,〜を追い越す
- trail:跡