这是一九三五年的夏天。在缅因州一所住宅的走廊一端,坐着一男一女。这是一所建筑在陡峭湖岸上的房屋,俯首眺望,眼前是一片烟波浩渺的湖水,此刻,湖面风平浪静。坐在走廊边的这两个人,男的叫汤姆·托德,女的是巴巴拉·拉瑟福德,他们是最近才相识的——巴巴拉和她的丈夫是托德家新来的客人。他们俩人不停地说着、笑着, This is the summer of 1935. At one end of the corridor in a home in Maine, a man and a woman sat. This is a building built on the steep bank of the lake, looking down, in front of a vast expanse of water, at this moment, the lake calm. The two men sitting beside the corridor, the men named Tom Todd and the female Barbara Rutherford, who had only recently met - Barbara and her husband were newcomers to the Todd family . The two of them kept talking, laughing,