原文
And with that Miss Lavendar Lewis was standing in the doorway. The girls
were so surprised that they forgot good manners and simply stared.
They had unconsciously been expecting to see the usual type of elderly
spinster as known to their experience . . . a rather angular personage,
with prim gray hair and spectacles. Nothing more unlike Miss Lavendar
could possibly be imagined.
語彙など
- good manner:良い礼儀
- stare:見つめる
- unconsciously:無意識に
- usual:普通の
- spinster:ハイミス,未婚女性
- rather:かなり
- angular:骨張った,やせこけた
- personage:人
- prim:堅苦しい,とりすました
- spectacles:メガネ