When I peep out of my room in the morning and see the matronly French lady in a purple silk wrapper, standing like the captain on the bridge surveying the morning, I pop in again before she can see me.

• 早上，当我从房间里向外窥视并看到那位仪态庄重的法国夫人身穿紫色丝绸晨衣，象首领站立在桥头一般环视着晨色，我便在她看到我之前迅速地抽回身来。