午食の時、Ｋと私は向ひ合せに席を占めました。下女に給仕をして貰つて、私はいつにない不味い飯を濟ませました。二人は食事中も殆んど口を利きませんでした。奥さんと御孃さんは何時歸るのだか分りませんでした。
translation
At lunchtime, K and I sat face to face. I had a maid wait on me, and I had an unusually unpleasant meal. They barely spoke during the meal. I didn't know when my wife and daughter would return.
kanji (pronunciations & definitions)
| 私: I (わたし), me, I (あたくし), I (あたし), I (アタシ) | 合: between-season wear (あい), spring and autumn clothing, spring and fall clothing, together, condition | 席: seat (せき), location (of a gathering, etc.), place, position, post | 占: fortune-telling (うら), divination |
| 給仕: waiting on a table (きゅうじ), serving (at dinner), waiter, waitress, waitperson | 不味: distaste (ふみ), unsavoriness, unsavouriness | 飯: cooked rice (めし), meal, food, one’s living, livelihood | 二人: two persons (ににん), two persons (ふたり), two people, two people, pair |
| 中: inside (なか), interior, among, within, middle | 殆: quite (ほとほと), utterly, really, completely | 口: mouth (くち), opening, hole, gap, orifice | 利: advantage (り), benefit, profit, interest |
| 何時: when (いつ), at what time, how soon, normal times, ordinary days | 分: minute (unit of time) (ふん), fun (one tenth of a monme, 5.787 grains), one-tenth (ぶ), one percent (one-tenth of a wari), 3 mm (one-tenth of a sun) |