『The Lovebirds』
Eleanor Farjeonの『The Lovebirds』という短編からの質問です。(これで最後です)
In time Marion and Cyril and Helen and Hugh stopped going to school. They had lost their fortunes long ago, and forgotten all about them. And Marion married the chemist's young man, and Cyril sat all day in an office, and Helen never happened to marry at all, and Hugh never happened to do anything whatever.
But Susan Brown kept her fortune all her life. By day she kept it in her pocket, and by night she kept it under her cheek. She didn't know what was in it, because she couldn't read. But it was a rose-pink fortune, and she hadn't had to buy it--it had been given to her. (The End)
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一番最後の
But it was a rose-pink fortune, and she hadn't had to buy it--it had been given to her.のところで、But it was a rose-pink fortune(しかしそれはローズピンクの幸運でした)とあり、a rose-pink fortuneがどういう幸運だったのかは具体的な説明がありません。
これは読者の想像に任せる、という狙いでしょうか?
前文になります:
The cat turned away as though it was thinking of something else, and Susan put her hand down to the lovebird, and the lovebird hopped on to her finger. Now to have a lovebird sitting on your finger is as lovely a thing as anyone can wish for on a summer day; it was the loveliest thing that had happened to Susan Brown in all her life. But that wasn't all; for just as they got to the cage-door the lovebird stretched out its beak, and picked a rose-pink fortune from the packet, and gave it to Susan. She couldn't believe it was true, but it was. She put the lovebird in the cage, and went back to her corner with her fortune in her hand.
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