原文
"This extraordinary letter puzzled me not a little. I knew Annetta
couldn't have composed it any more than she could fly. When I went to
school the next day I took her for a walk down to the brook at recess
and asked her to tell me the truth about the letter. Annetta cried
and 'fessed up freely. She said she had never written a letter and she
didn't know how to, or what to say, but there was bundle of love letters
in her mother's top bureau drawer which had been written to her by an
old 'beau.'
語彙など
- extraordinary:驚くべき,強烈な
- puzzle:当惑させる
- not a little:少なからず
- compose:書く
- brook:小川
- recess:休み時間
- fess up:白状する
- bundle:束
- bureau drawer:箪笥の引き出し
- beau:恋人