「私は奥さんからさう云ふ風に取扱かはれた結果、段々快活になつて來たのです。それを自覺してゐたから、同じものを今度はＫの上に應用しやうと試みたのです。Ｋと私とが性格の上に於て、大分相違のある事は、長く交際つて來た私に能く解つてゐましたけれども、私の神經が此家庭に入つてから多少角が取れた如く、Ｋの心も此所に置けば何時か沈まる事があるだらうと考へたのです。
translation
``As a result of being treated in this way by my wife, I gradually became more cheerful. As someone who has been with K for a long time, I was well aware that K and I were quite different in character, but since my Shinsei entered this family, things have changed somewhat. I thought that if I put K's heart in this place as if I had got it, it would be able to sink someday.
kanji (pronunciations & definitions)
| 私: I (わたし), me, I (あたくし), I (あたし), I (アタシ) | 奥: inner part (おく), interior, back (of a drawer, one’s throat, etc.), depths (e.g. of a forest), recesses (e.g. of a cave) | 風: swing (ふり), shake, wave, swinging, appearance | 取扱: treatment (とりあつかい), service, handling, management |
| 快活: cheerful (かいかつ), lively, lighthearted | 同: the same (どう), the said, likewise | 今度: this time (こんど), now, next time, another time, shortly | Ｋ: K (ケイ), K (ケー), k, k, kilo- |
| 試: testing (し), experiment, test, examination, exam | 性格: character (of a person) (せいかく), personality, disposition, nature, characteristics | 於: at (おいて), in, on | 大分: considerably (だいぶ), considerably (だいぶん), greatly, greatly, a lot |
| 相違: difference (そうい), discrepancy, variation | 事: thing (こと), thing (こん), matter, matter, incident | 長: height (たき), height (たけ), stature, stature, length (esp. of clothing) | 交際: company (こうさい), friendship, association, society, acquaintance |
| 解: solution (of an equation, inequality, etc.) (かい), root (e.g. of a polynomial), solution (to a given problem), answer, explanation | 家庭: home (かてい), household, family, hearth | 入: entering (いり), setting (of the Sun), containing, content, audience | 多少: a little (たしょう), some, somewhat, slightly, to some degree |
| 取: taking (とり), taker, collecting, collector, remover | 如: tathata (the ultimate nature of all things) (にょ), like (こと), like (ごと), like (もころ), similar to | 心: mind (こころ), heart, spirit, the meaning of a phrase (riddle, etc.), heart (しん) | 此所: here (ここ), this place, this point, here, now |
| 考: thought (こう), report on one’s investigation into …, deceased father |