At breakfast I announced to Diana and Mary that I was going a journey, and should be absent at least four days.

早餐时，我向黛安娜和玛丽宣布，我要出门去，至少离开四天。

"Alone, Jane?" they asked.

“一个人去吗，简？”她们问。

"Yes; it was to see or hear news of a friend about who m I had for some time been uneasy."

“是的，去看看，或者打听一下一个朋友的消息，我已为他担心了好久了。”

They might have said, as I have no doubt they thought,

正如我明白她们在想的那样，她们本可以说，

that they had believed me to be without any friends save them: for, indeed, I had often said so;

一直以为除了她们，我没有别的朋友，其实我也总是这么讲的。

but, with their true natural delicacy, they abstained from comment, except that Diana asked me if I was sure I was well enough to travel.

但出于天生真诚的体贴，她们没有发表任何议论，除了黛安娜问我身体是否确实不错，是否适宜旅行。

I looked very pale, she observed.

她说我脸色苍白。

I replied, that nothing ailed me save anxiety of mind, which I hoped soon to alleviate.

我回答说没有什么不适，只不过内心有些不安，但相信不久就会好的。

It was easy to make my further arrangements; for I was troubled with no inquiries -- no surmises.

于是接下来的安排就容易了，因为我不必为刨根究底和东猜西想而烦恼。

Having once explained to them that I could not now be explicit about my plans,

我一向她们解释，现在还不能明确宣布我的计划，

they kindly and wisely acquiesced in the silence with which I pursued them,

她们便聪明而善解人意地默许我悄然进行，

according to me the privilege of free action I should under similar circumstances have accorded them.

给了我在同样情况下也会给予她们的自由行动的特权。