It is true that there were other factors in this pleasing disappointment. In the first place, mirabile dictu, there were one or two even greater duffers than I on the Abbey cricket-field.

诚然，在这种令人愉快的失望中还有其他因素。首先，奇迹般的说法，在修道院板球场上有一两个比我还厉害的笨蛋。