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Nath backs away from the door and creeps down the stairs.[qh]
纳从门口退开，蹑手蹑脚地下了楼。[qh]
He doesn’t need to hear any more.[qh]
他不需要再听下去了。[qh]
At home, not wanting to see anyone, he slips upstairs to his room to ruminate over what he’s heard.[qh]
回到家里，他不想见任何人，就溜到楼上自己的房间里，反复思量着他所听到的一切。[qh]
There’s no one for him to see anyway.[qh]
反正他也见不到人。[qh]
While Nath fretted under the elm tree, his family has dispersed.[qh]
当纳在榆树下焦躁不安的时候，他的家人已经散去了。[qh]
During the car ride, Marilyn doesn’t look at James once,[qh]
在乘车的过程中，玛丽莲没有看詹姆斯一眼，[qh]
focusing instead on her knuckles, picking at her cuticles, fiddling with the strap of her handbag.[qh]
而是专注于她的指关节，抠她的角质层，摆弄她手提包的带子。[qh]
As soon as they come inside, Marilyn says she wants to lie down, and Hannah too vanishes into her room without a word.[qh]
他们一进屋，玛丽琳就说她想躺下，汉娜也一言不发地消失在房间里。[qh]
For a moment James considers joining Marilyn in their bedroom.[qh]
有那么一会儿，詹姆斯考虑和玛丽琳一起进他们的卧室。[qh]
He’s filled with a deep longing to burrow against her,[qh]
他内心充满了对她的渴望[qh]
to feel her weight and warmth surrounding him, shielding him from everything else.[qh]
感受她的重量和温暖环绕着他，保护他不受其他一切的伤害。[qh]
To cling to her and feel her cling to him and let their bodies comfort each other.[qh]
紧紧地抱住她，感觉她紧紧地抱住他，让他们的身体互相安慰。[qh]
But something scratches and scratches at the edge of James’s mind, and at last he lifts his keys from the table again.[qh]
但有什么东西在詹姆斯的脑海里刮来刮去，最后他又从桌子上拿起了钥匙。[qh]
There is something he must do at the office, urgently.[qh]
办公室里有件事他必须马上去做。[qh]
It cannot wait another minute.[qh]
它不能再等一分钟了。[qh]
When the police had asked if he wanted a copy of the autopsy, he had given them his office address.[qh]
当警察问他是否需要一份验尸报告时，他给了他们他的办公室地址。[qh]
Then yesterday, a thick manila envelope appeared in his mail cubby, and he decided he’d made a mistake:[qh]
昨天，他的信箱里出现了一个厚厚的马尼拉信封，他觉得自己犯了一个错误:[qh]
he didn’t want to see it, ever.[qh]
他根本不想看。[qh]
