You were wearing a beautiful suit of light-brown tweeds, and you ran upstairs two steps at a time with the boyish ease that always characterizes your movements. You were hat in hand, so that, with indescribable amazement, I could see your youthful hair. Your handsome, slim, and spruce figure was a positive shock to me.

They have heard and read much of love, and they know that it comes to all. They play it like a toy; they flaunt it as a boy flaunts his first cigarette. 他们玩弄爱情，就像摆弄一个玩具，他们夸耀自己恋爱的经历，就像男孩抽了第一支香烟而洋洋得意。

But i had no confidant; i had been neither taught nor warned; i was inexperienced and unsuspecting. I rushed to meet my fate. 可我身边没有别人，我没法向别人诉说我的心事，没有人指点我、提醒我，我毫无阅历，毫无思想准备：我一头栽进我的命运，就像跌进一个深渊。

Memory was in this respect similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection. 回忆和期待一样，是一种简化和剪辑现实的工具。