私はＫが其時何か云ひはしなかつたかと奥さんに聞きました。奥さんは別段何にも云はないと答へました。然し私は進んでもつと細かい事を尋ねずにはゐられませんでした。奥さんは固より何も隱す譯がありません。大した話もないがと云ひながら、一々Ｋの樣子を語つて聞かせて呉れました。
translation
I asked Okusan if K had said anything at the time. Okusan replied that she had nothing to say. But I couldn't help but ask more details. Okusan has nothing to hide. While saying that it wasn't much to talk about, I was able to tell K's story one by one.
kanji (pronunciations & definitions)
| 私: I (わたし), me, I (あたくし), I (あたし), I (アタシ) | Ｋ: K (ケイ), K (ケー), k, k, kilo- | 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) | 別段: particular (べちだん), particular (べつだん), special, special, (not) particularly |
| 答: answer (こたえ), reply, response, answer, solution | 然: -like (ぜん), so (さ), like that, in that way, like that (しか) | 細: detail (さい), details, small (いささ), small (いさら), little | 事: thing (こと), thing (こん), matter, matter, incident |
| 何: what (なに), what (ナニ), you-know-what, you-know-what, that thing | 大: large (おお), big, great, major, important | 話: talk (はなし), speech, chat, conversation, topic | 一々: one-by-one (いちいち), separately, every single, each and every, without omission |
| 語: word (ご), language, speech, talk (かたり), recital | 呉: go (ご), soy beans soaked and mashed to a creamy paste (ingredient of tofu and soy milk), Wu (region in China, south of the lower Yangtze), Wu (kingdom in China during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms era; 902-937 CE), Southern Wu |