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Chapter 10 The Woman In The Schloss(2)
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They lunched at a small mountain inn. The weather was good, the moun-tains beautiful. Occasionally Stafford Nye wondered what on earth he wasdoing here. He understood less and less of his travelling companion. Shespoke little. He found himself watching her profile. Where was she takinghim? What was her real reason? At last, as the sun was almost setting, hesaid:
‘Where are we going? Can I ask?’
‘You can ask, yes.’
‘But you do not reply?’
‘I could reply. I could tell you things, but would they mean anything? Itseems to me that if you come to where we are going without my preparingyou with explanations (which cannot in the nature of things mean any-thing), your first impressions will have more force and significance.’
He looked at her again thoughtfully. She was wearing a tweed coattrimmed with fur, smart travelling clothes, foreign in make and cut.
‘Mary Ann,’ he said thoughtfully.
There was a faint question in it.
‘No,’ she said, ‘not at the moment.’
‘Ah. You are still the Countess Zerkowski.’
‘At the moment I am still the Countess Zerkowski.’
‘Are you in your own part of the world?’
‘More or less. I grew up as a child in this part of the world. For a goodportion of each year we used to come here in the autumn to a Schloss notvery many miles from here.’
He smiled and said thoughtfully, ‘What a nice word it is. A Schloss. Sosolid-sounding.’
‘Schl?sser are not standing2 very solidly nowadays. They are mostly dis-integrated.’
‘This is Hitler’s country, isn’t it? We’re not far, are we, from Berchtes-gaden?’
‘It lies over there to the north-east.’
‘Did your relations, your friends–did they accept Hitler, believe in him?
Perhaps I ought not to ask things like that.’
‘They disliked him and all he stood for. But they said “Heil Hitler”. Theyacquiesced in what had happened to their country. What else could theydo? What else could anybody do at that date?’
‘We are going towards the Dolomites, are we not?’
‘Does it matter where we are, or which way we are going?’
‘Well, this is a voyage of exploration, is it not?’
‘Yes, but the exploration is not geographical3. We are going to see a per-sonality.’
‘You make me feel–’ Stafford Nye looked up at the landscape of swellingmountains reaching up to the sky–‘as though we were going to visit thefamous Old Man of the Mountain.’
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n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说 | |
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geographically
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arrogance
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