原文
Mr. Douglas nodded and said, "I was looking at you in prayer-meeting,
miss, and thinking what a nice little girl you were."
Such a speech from ninety-nine people out of a hundred would have annoyed Anne bitterly; but the way in which Mr. Douglas said it made her feel that she had received a very real and pleasing compliment. She smiled appreciatively at him and dropped obligingly behind on the moonlit road.
語彙など
- prayer meeting:祈祷会
- annoy:〜をイライラさせる
- bitterly:ひどく
- compliment:褒め言葉
- appreciatively:感謝しているというように
- drop behind:後になる
- obligingly:好意で