原文
"I've been wanting to go to see Ruby for a long while," she told Anne,
when they left Green Gables the next evening, "but I really couldn't
go alone. It's so awful to hear Ruby rattling on as she does, and
pretending there is nothing the matter with her, even when she can
hardly speak for coughing. She's fighting so hard for her life, and yet
she hasn't any chance at all, they say."
語彙など
- for a long while:長々と
- rattle on:まくしたてる
- cough:咳をする
- for one's life:必死になって