原文 (英語)

CHAPTER I “It is not a large house,” I said.  “We don’t want a large house.  Two spare bedrooms, and the little three-cornered place you see marked there on the plan, next to the bathroom, and which will just do for a bachelor, will be all we shall require—at all events, for the present.  Later on, if I ever get rich, we can throw out a wing.  The kitchen I shall have to break to your mother gently.  Whatever the original architect could have been thinking of—” “Never mind the kitchen,