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A Telegram at Breakfast
One morning, as Watson and his wife sit at breakfast, their maid brings a telegram from Holmes. It asks Watson to accompany him on a case in the west of England and gives the time of departure. His wife asks whether he intends to go, but Watson has patients to see and cannot immediately decide how to reply.
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One morning, as Watson and his wife sit at breakfast, their maid brings a telegram from Holmes. It asks Watson to accompany him on a case in the west of England and gives the time of departure. His wife asks whether he intends to go, but Watson has patients to see and cannot immediately decide how to reply.
We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the maid brought in a telegram.ある朝、妻と二人で朝食の席に着いていると、女中が電報を持ってきた。
It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran in this way:シャーロック・ホームズからで、文面はこうだった。
"Have you a couple of days to spare?「二日ほど時間を空けられるか。
Have just been wired for from the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy.ボスコム谷の惨劇に関して、イングランド西部から電報で呼ばれたところだ。
Shall be glad if you will come with me.同行してくれればうれしい。
Air and scenery perfect.空気も景色も申し分なし。
Leave Paddington by the 11:15."パディントンを十一時十五分の列車で出発する」
"What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me.「どうするの、あなた」と妻は向かいから私を見て言った。
"Will you go?"「行くの」
"I really don't know what to say.「どう答えたものか、本当に分からないよ。
I have a fairly long list at present."今は診る患者がかなり大勢いるんだ」