アンの青春 第二十三章

CHAPTER XXIII Miss Lavendar's Romance(12)

原文
"So we were . . . twenty-five years ago . . . a lifetime ago. And we were to have been married the next spring. I had my wedding dress made, although nobody but mother and Stephen ever knew THAT. We'd been engaged in a way almost all our lives, you might say. When Stephen was a little boy his mother would bring him here when she came to see my mother; and the second time he ever came . . . he was nine and I was six . . . he told me out in the garden that he had pretty well made up his mind to marry me when he grew up. I remember that I said 'Thank you'; and when he was gone I told mother very gravely that there was a great weight off my mind, because I wasn't frightened any more about having to be an old maid. How poor mother laughed!"

"And what went wrong?" asked Anne breathlessly.

語彙など
  • wedding dress:ウェディングドレス
  • but:〜以外の
  • engaged:婚約中の
  • make up one's mind:決心する
  • gravely:おごそかに
  • old maid:オールドミス
  • breathlessly:ハラハラしながら,息せき切って