原文
School opened and Anne returned to her work, with fewer theories but
considerably more experience. She had several new pupils, six- and
seven-year-olds just venturing, round-eyed, into a world of wonder.
Among them were Davy and Dora. Davy sat with Milty Boulter, who had been
going to school for a year and was therefore quite a man of the world.
Dora had made a compact at Sunday School the previous Sunday to sit
with Lily Sloane; but Lily Sloane not coming the first day, she was
temporarily assigned to Mirabel Cotton, who was ten years old and
therefore, in Dora's eyes, one of the "big girls."
語彙など
- considerably:見違えるほど
- experience:経験
- venture:思い切って〜する
- round-eyed:目を丸くした
- wonder:驚異
- man of the world:世慣れた人
- make a compact:協定する,契約を結ぶ
- temporarily:一時的に
- assign:〜を割り当てる