在文宁家的院子中央有一座巨大的木屋。杰克好奇地看着它，心想这房子是不是建在这儿是为了吓唬建筑师。它实在是太丑了，让人没法觉得好笑；它有种阴森、沉闷的恐怖感。在它正前方是一片他猜夏天可能是个有图案的花园的地方，现在是雪地里的一系列隆起和凹陷。
In the center of the Venning grounds was an immense, wooden house. Jake looked at it curiously and wondered if it might have been put there to frighten architects. It was almost too ugly to be pleasantly funny; it had a kind of sinister, gloomy horror. Immediately before it was what he guessed might be a patterned garden in summer, now a series of bulges and depressions in the snow.
他又看了看那座房子，心想难怪文宁二十年来都没回来过。
He looked again at the house and reflected that it was no wonder Venning had stayed away for twenty years.
他穿过草坪，一边无力地咒骂着钻进裤腿的雪，一边绕着房子走。房子后面，紫杉树篱中的一个拱门通向另一片宽阔的草坪，这似乎是枫树公园风景的特色。他穿过草坪走了几步，突然停了下来。
He walked across the lawn, swearing impotently at the snow that crept up under his trouser leg, and skirted the house. Behind it, an archway in a yew hedge led into another of the broad lawns that seemed to characterize the Maple Park landscape. He took a few steps across it and stopped suddenly.
有一个女人，身材高挑，穿着黑色衣服，站在草坪边缘的一片树林前。他盯着她看了一会儿，怀疑她是真实的，还是安迪?阿赫恩的杜松子酒产生的幻觉。她身后没有叶子的树黑乎乎的，影影绰绰，而她面前的雪则是一片完整而耀眼的白色。
There was a woman, tall, and dressed in black, standing just before a grove of trees that ran along one edge of the lawn. He stared at her for a moment, wondering if she were real, or something cooked up by Andy Ahearn’s gin. The leafless trees behind her were dark and shadowy, before her the snow was an unbroken, dazzling white.
突然，他意识到这昏暗的天气和低低地悬在头顶的厚重云层。
Suddenly he became conscious of the murky gloom of the day and the heavy clouds that hung low overhead.
女人向前走了几步。即使隔着一段距离，他也能看出她那布满皱纹、憔悴的脸曾经很美。他想起马龙对莫娜?麦克莱恩家客人的描述，意识到这可能是伊迪莎?文宁。
The woman took a few steps forward. Even at a little distance he saw that her lined, haggard face had once been beautiful. He remembered Malone’s descriptions of Mona McClane’s house guests and realized that this might be Editha Venning.
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