Gaynor's door-step wordsl9-"To be so kind to me, how she must have liked you! though he caught himself wishing it lay within the bounds of fitness to transmit them as a final tribute, to the one woman he knew who was unfail ingly certain to enjoy a good thing. It was perhaps the one drawback to his new situation that it might develop good things which it would be impossible to hand on to Margaret Vervain. 20 The fact that he had made the mistake of underrating 2I his friends powers, the consciousness that his writing must have betrayed his distrust of her efficiency, seemed an added reason for turning down her street instead of going on to the club He would show her that he knew how to value her he would ask her to achieve with him a feat infinitely rarer and more delicate than the one he had appeared to avoid Incidentally, he would also dispose of the interval of time before dinner: ever since he had seen Miss Gaynor off, an hour earlier, on her return journey to buffalo, he had been wondering how he should put in the rest of the afternoon. It was absurd, how he irL. Yes that was it the desire to talk about her was after all. at the bottom of his impulse to call on Mrs. Vervain It was absurd, if you like-but it was delightfully rejuvenating. He could recall the time when he had been afraid of being obvious: now he felt that this return to the primitive emotions might be as restorative as a holiday in the canad ian woods 3. and it was precisely by the girls candor, 24 her directness, her lack of complications, that he was taken. The sense that she might say something rash at any moment was positively exhilarating: if she had thrown her arms about him at the station he would not have given a thought to his crumpled dignity It surprised Thursdale to find what freshness of heart he brought to the adventure, and though his sense of irony prevented his ascribing his intactness to any conscious purpose, he could but rejoice in the fact that his sentimental economies had left him such a large surplus to draw upon Mrs. Vervain was at home -as usual. When one visits the cemetery one expects to find the angel on the tombstone, and it struck Thursdale as another proof of his 19.9 hardly needed the offset of Miss gaynor's door- step words:不需要任何上门道 歉的话来作为补偿 20.0 it would be impossible to hand on to Margaret Vervain:在 Vervain身上毫无 改造空间 21.2 underrating:低估 22.2 delightfully rejuvenating:充满欢乐的青春与活力 23.23 as restorative as a holiday in the Canad ian woods:那仿佛像是在加拿大度假 般令人神往解放 24.24 candor:真诚坦率 25.25 crumpled dignity:受损的自尊心Gaynor's door-step words19 -- "To be so kind to me, how she must have liked you!" -- though he caught himself wishing it lay within the bounds of fitness to transmit them, as a final tribute, to the one woman he knew who was unfailingly certain to enjoy a good thing. It was perhaps the one drawback to his new situation that it might develop good things which it would be impossible to hand on to Margaret Vervain.20 The fact that he had made the mistake of underrating21 his friend's powers, the consciousness that his writing must have betrayed his distrust of her efficiency, seemed an added reason for turning down her street instead of going on to the club. He would show her that he knew how to value her; he would ask her to achieve with him a feat infinitely rarer and more delicate than the one he had appeared to avoid. Incidentally, he would also dispose of the interval of time before dinner: ever since he had seen Miss Gaynor off, an hour earlier, on her return journey to Buffalo, he had been wondering how he should put in the rest of the afternoon. It was absurd, how he missed the girl. . . . Yes, that was it; the desire to talk about her was, after all, at the bottom of his impulse to call on Mrs. Vervain! It was absurd, if you like -- but it was delightfully rejuvenating.22 He could recall the time when he had been afraid of being obvious: now he felt that this return to the primitive emotions might be as restorative as a holiday in the Canadian woods23 . And it was precisely by the girl's candor,24 her directness, her lack of complications, that he was taken. The sense that she might say something rash at any moment was positively exhilarating: if she had thrown her arms about him at the station he would not have given a thought to his crumpled dignity25 . It surprised Thursdale to find what freshness of heart he brought to the adventure; and though his sense of irony prevented his ascribing his intactness to any conscious purpose, he could but rejoice in the fact that his sentimental economies had left him such a large surplus to draw upon. Mrs. Vervain was at home -- as usual. When one visits the cemetery one expects to find the angel on the tombstone, and it struck Thursdale as another proof of his 19. 19 hardly needed the offset of Miss Gaynor's door-step words：不需要任何上门道 歉的话来作为补偿 20. 20 it would be impossible to hand on to Margaret Vervain.：在 Vervain 身上毫无 改造空间 21. 21 underrating：低估 22. 22 delightfully rejuvenating：充满欢乐的青春与活力 23. 23 as restorative as a holiday in the Canadian woods：那仿佛像是在加拿大度假 般令人神往解放。 24. 24 candor：真诚坦率 25. 25 crumpled dignity：受损的自尊心