那是非常真实的:男从对于女人已没有真正的魔力了,假如你能瞒着你自己去幻想他们还有魔力,正如康妮瞒着她自己去幻想着蔑克里斯还有魔力一体,那是最好的一件事。

• It was quite true, men had no real glamour for a woman: if you could fool yourself into thinking they had, even as she had fooled herself over Michaelis, that was the Best you could do.