原文
When the girls got back to Echo Lodge they found that Miss Lavendar
and Paul had carried the little square table out of the kitchen to
the garden and had everything ready for tea. Nothing ever tasted so
delicious as those strawberries and cream, eaten under a great blue
sky all curdled over with fluffy little white clouds, and in the long
shadows of the wood with its lispings and its murmurings. After tea Anne
helped Charlotta wash the dishes in the kitchen, while Miss Lavendar sat
on the stone bench with Paul and heard all about his rock people. She
was a good listener, this sweet Miss Lavendar, but just at the last it
struck Paul that she had suddenly lost interest in the Twin Sailors.
語彙など
- square table:角テーブル
- taste:〜の味がする
- curdle:凝結する
- fluffy:ふわふわした
- lisp:葉がサラサラいう音
- murmur:ささやく
- strike:(恐怖心を)引き起こす,悩ます