原文
"What if the Copp girls don't come home until after night . . . or till
tomorrow?" suggested Diana.
"If they're not back by sunset you'll have to go for other assistance, I suppose," said Anne reluctantly, "but you mustn't go until you really have to. Oh dear, this is a dreadful predicament. I wouldn't mind my misfortunes so much if they were romantic, as Mrs. Morgan's heroines' always are, but they are always just simply ridiculous. Fancy what the Copp girls will think when they drive into their yard and see a girl's head and shoulders sticking out of the roof of one of their outhouses. Listen . . . is that a wagon? No, Diana, I believe it is thunder."
語彙など
- sunset:日没
- assistance:援助
- reluctantly:しぶしぶ
- dreadful:ひどい
- predicament:窮地
- misfortune:不運
- ridiculous:ばかげた
- fancy:想像する
- stick out of:〜に突き刺さる
- outhouse:納屋
- thunder:雷,雷鳴