Overgrown paths led to what had been houses — old lawns thick with dead weeds, carriage blocks bearing names she knew so well, hitching posts which would never again know the knot of reins.

杂草丛生的小径所到之处，往往是原来有房子的地方，或者是早已荒废的旧草地，标着她所熟悉的名字的停车间，以及再也不知缰绳为何物的拴马桩，等等。