She had no children, but unlike most of the staff, she had a husband, and the girls could detect in her manner a faint abstraction, a slight absence from the ingrown matters of school life.

• 她没有孩子。可是，不同于大多数女教师的是，她有丈夫，女孩子们能从她的举止中窥察出那种隐约可见的心不在焉和对学校生活中固有的那些事情的漫不经心。