「一週間ばかりして私は又Ｋと御孃さんが一所に話してゐる室を通り拔けました。其時御孃さんは私の顏を見るや否や笑ひ出しました。私はすぐ何が可笑しいのかと聞けば可かつたのでせう。それをつい默つて自分の居間迄來て仕舞つたのです。だからＫも何時ものやうに、今歸つたかと聲を掛ける事が出來なくなりました。御孃さんはすぐ障子を開けて茶の間へ入つたやうでした。
translation
"About a week later, I passed by another room where K and the daughter were talking together. At that time, the moment she saw me, she started laughing. I should have just asked him what was so funny about it, so I quietly went to my living room and finished it off. It seemed that the daughter immediately opened the shoji screen and entered the living room.
kanji (pronunciations & definitions)
| 一週間: one week (いっしゅうかん) | 私: I (わたし), me, I (あたくし), I (あたし), I (アタシ) | 一所: one place (いっしょ), one place (ひとところ), the same place, the same place, one person | 話: talk (はなし), speech, chat, conversation, topic |
| 通: authority (つう), expert, connoisseur, well-informed person, counter for messages, letters, notes, documents, etc. | 顏: face (かお), face (がん), visage, visage, look | 見: looking (み), viewing, (please) try (to), view (of life, etc.) (けん), outlook | 否: no (ひ), the noes, no (いや), no (いな), nay |
| 出: coming out (で), going out, outflow, efflux, rising (of the Sun or the Moon) | 何: what (なに), what (ナニ), you-know-what, you-know-what, that thing | 可: acceptable (か), satisfactory, allowed, permitted, approval | 自分: myself (じぶん), yourself, oneself, himself, herself |
| 仕舞: end (しまい), close, finish, termination, noh dance in plain clothes | Ｋ: K (ケイ), K (ケー), k, k, kilo- | 何時: when (いつ), at what time, how soon, normal times, ordinary days | 聲: voice (こえ), singing (of a bird), chirping (of an insect), hoot, voice |
| 事: thing (こと), thing (こん), matter, matter, incident | 障子: shoji (paper sliding door) (しょうじ) | 茶: tea (ちゃ), tea plant (Camellia sinensis), tea preparation, making tea, brown | 間: space (between) (あいだ), space (between) (あわい), gap, gap, interval |