His meeting with Adrian Singleton had strangely moved him, and he wondered if the ruin of that young life was really to be laid at his door, as Basil Hallward had said to him with such infamy of insult.

他与阿德里安·辛格尔顿的会面奇怪地打动了他，他想知道那年轻生命的毁灭是否真的要放在他家门口，就像巴兹尔·霍尔沃德对他说的那样，带着如此臭名昭著的侮辱。