原文
The evening after the funeral Janet and Anne were sitting on the front
porch steps at sunset. The wind had fallen asleep in the pinelands and
lurid sheets of heat-lightning flickered across the northern skies.
Janet wore her ugly black dress and looked her very worst, her eyes and
nose red from crying. They talked little, for Janet seemed faintly
to resent Anne's efforts to cheer her up. She plainly preferred to be
miserable.
語彙など
- funeral:葬式
- fall asleep:眠りに落ちる
- pineland:松が自生している地域
- lurid:ゾッとする
- heat lightning:稲光り
- flicker:点滅する
- faintly:かすかに
- resent:ひどく嫌がる
- plainly:明らかに