福爾摩斯探案集·身份案 第6期:一位女性委托者(2)
Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss Mary Sutherland.
瑪麗·薩瑟蘭小姐的有些茫然若失的臉上又一次出現了驚訝的神色。
"Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said,
她說："是的，我是突然地出來的。
"for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. Windibank--that is, my father--took it all.
因為看到溫迪班克先生--就是我的父親--對這事漠不關心，使我非常氣憤。
He would not go to the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last,
他不肯去報告警察，也不肯到您這里來，最后，
as he would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, it made me mad,
由于他什么都不干，只是不斷地說，'沒事，沒事'，使我十分冒火，
and I just on with my things and came right away to you."
我穿上外衣，就立即趕來找您。"
"Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the name is different."
"你的父親，"福爾摩斯說，"一定是你的繼父，因為不是同姓。"
"Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself."
"不錯，是我的繼父。我叫他父親，盡管聽起來很可笑，因為他比我只大五歲零兩個月。"
"And your mother is alive?" "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well.
"你母親還健在嗎？""是的，我母親還健在。
I wasn't best pleased, Mr. Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death,
福爾摩斯先生，在父親剛死不久，她就重新結婚了，
and a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself.
而且男的比她幾乎年輕十五歲，這使我很不高興。
Father was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road,
我父親是在托特納姆法院路做管子生意的。
and he left a tidy business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the foreman;
他遺留下來一個相當大的企業(yè)，這個企業(yè)由母親和工頭哈迪先生繼續(xù)經營，
but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines.
可是，溫迪班克先生一來就迫使母親出賣了這個企業(yè)，因為他是個推銷酒的旅行推銷員，地位很優(yōu)越。
They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't near as much as father could have got if he had been alive."
他們出賣商譽連同利息，共得四千七百英鎊。假如父親還活著，他得到的錢數會比這個多得多。"
