地怪怪地望着他，茫然的样子活像个孩子，但狡黠的神态又好似老朽。

"You won't let me down, now, will you?" he said.

“你不会让我失望，对吗？”他说。

"How?" "While you're away, I mean, you're sure to come back?” "I'm as sure as I can be of anything, that I shall come back.” "Yes! Well! Twentieth of July!"

“让你失望？”“我是说，你走之后，确定还会回来是吗？”“我肯定会回来，绝不食言。”“好吧！很好！7月20号！”

He looked at her so strangely.

他表情怪异地望着她。

Yet he really wanted her to go. That was so curious. He wanted her to go, positively, to have her little adventures and perhaps come home pregnant, and all that. At the same time, he was afraid of her going.

但在心里，他其实希望她走。这确实有些奇怪。他盼着她离开，盼着她遇到露水情缘，或许还能够怀胎而返。但与此同时，他又害怕她弃他而去。

She was quivering, watching her real opportunity for leaving him altogether, waiting till the time, herself himself should be ripe.

她激动得全身震颤，等待着真正机会的到来，可以完全脱离他的束缚，等待着她和他都成熟的一天。

She sat and talked to the keeper of her going abroad.

她坐在守林人家中，说起自己要出国旅行的事情。

"And then when I come back," she said, "I can tell Clifford I must leave him. And you and I can go away.