马龙探案卷三 之 错误的凶案 三十五
一开始，杰克觉得很奇怪，老麦克莱恩大厦里那个宽敞舒适的房间看起来和他上次看到的时候一模一样。然后他想起来那只是前一天晚上的事。
AT FIRST IT SEEMED remarkable to Jake that the big, fortable room in the old McClane mansion should look just as it had when he had seen it last. Then he remembered that had been only the night before.
同样的房间，同样超大的豪华家具，同样的人。只是少了弗雷特?桑德斯，留下了一个巨大的空缺。她当时就坐在那张沙发上，就在那边的那张。奇怪，杰克想，像弗雷特这么小的一个人，在一个房间里竟然能留下这么大的一个空位。这就像拔掉一颗很小的牙齿后留下的那个巨大的、张着大口的峡谷，一个人总是会一直意识到那个峡谷的存在。房间里的每个人都试图不去注意弗雷特?桑德斯留下的空位，但每个人又都无法忍受地意识到了它。
The same room, the same, oversized luxurious furniture, the same people. Save for that terribly large gap left by the absence of Fleurette Sanders. She had been sitting on that couch, that one right over there. Strange, Jake thought, that such a little person as Fleurette could leave such an enormous space behind in a room. It was like the tremendous, yawning canyon that always seemed to be left by the extraction of a quite small tooth, a canyon of which one was perpetually conscious. Everyone in the room was trying to pay no attention to the space left by Fleurette Sanders, and everyone was unbearably aware of it.
他们都避开了她曾经坐过的那张沙发。
All of them avoided the couch where she had been.
其他人都在那里。杰克环顾房间。威利斯?桑德斯在那儿，脸色苍白，明显在发抖，乔治?布兰德就在他旁边，而帕特里奇则不引人注目地关切着，在后面徘徊。杰克注意到，威利斯?桑德斯没了胡子，而他同伴那修剪整齐的小胡子和翘胡子又回到了它们该在的位置。他很好奇帕特里奇是怎么做到的。当然是用了某种胶水。达芙妮?桑德斯也在，她独自一人坐着，就像房间里的一个陌生人，努力装出好像她前一晚没有指控死去的弗雷特?桑德斯谋杀的样子。
The others were there. Jake looked around the room. There was Willis Sanders, pale and visibly shaken, with George Brand right beside him and an unobtrusively solicitous Partridge hovering in the background. Willis Sanders was beardless, Jake observed, while his panion’s neatly trimmed mustache and imperial were back where they seemed to belong. He wondered how Partridge had managed it. Some kind of glue, of course. There was Daphne Sanders, sitting quite by herself, like an alien in the room, trying to look as though she hadn’t accused the dead Fleurette Sanders of murder only the night before.
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