" You don't mean-" I had a picture in mind of a very calm, deliberate suicide I once saw on the mail boat from Holyhead to Kingstown.

“你不是说——”我脑海中浮现出一幅画面，那是我曾经在从霍利黑德到金斯敦的邮船上看到的一次非常平静、蓄意的自杀。

Next day the mail boat comes in. Isak climbs up on a rock by the storekeeper's wharf, looking out, but still no Inger to be seen. Passengers there were, grown-up folk and children with them—Herregud! —but no Inger.

第二天，邮船来了。Isak 爬上店主码头边的一块岩石，向外张望，但仍然看不到 Inger。那里有乘客，有成人和孩子——Herregud！——但没有 Inger。