" Begging your pardon, ma'am, it wasn't a billiard saloon, but a gymnasium, and I was taking a lesson in fencing" .

“对不起，女士，那不是台球厅，而是体育馆，我正在上击剑课。”

She recognized the staring signs over the eating-houses and billiard saloons, and the long lines of wires on lofty poles tapering down the main street to the park at its other end.

她认出了餐馆和台球沙龙上方醒目的招牌，高高的电线杆上长长的电线沿着主街道逐渐变细， 一直延伸到公园的另一端。