As soon as they had taken off the mourning clothes for their grandmother, which they wore with inflexible rigor for threeyears, their bright clothes seemed to have given them a new place in the world.

她们一脱下为祖母穿戴了三年的丧服，一身鲜艳的衣服似乎让她们在这个世界上有了一个新的位置。