Full text: Japanese translation and original English
Holmes calls Mary’s experience cruel treatment, but she firmly shakes her head. Hosmer was not the kind of man who would abandon her, she insists. She now recalls the strange words he spoke on the wedding morning. Holmes tries to establish exactly how Mary herself interprets the baffling disappearance before asking her to explain it.
"It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said Holmes.「あなたは、たいへんひどい仕打ちを受けたように思えます」とホームズは言った。
"Oh, no, sir!「いいえ、そんなことはありません。
He was too good and kind to leave me so.私をあんなふうに置き去りにするには、あの方はあまりにも親切で優しい方でした。
Why, all the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later.だって、あの朝はずっと、何があっても忠実でいるように、たとえまったく思いがけないことが起きて二人が引き離されても、彼に誓いを立てたことをいつも忘れずにいてほしい、いつか必ずその誓いを果たしてもらうから、と私に言っていたんです。
It seemed strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since gives a meaning to it."結婚式の朝にしては変な話に思えましたが、その後で起きたことを考えると意味が分かります」
"Most certainly it does.「確かに、そうですね。
Your own opinion is, then, that some unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?"では、あなたご自身は、何か予期しない災難が彼に降りかかったと考えているのですね」
"Yes, sir.「ええ、そうです。
I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he would not have talked so.彼は何かの危険を予感していたのだと思います。そうでなければ、あのように話したはずがありません。
And then I think that what he foresaw happened."それで、彼が予感していたことが実際に起きたのだと思います」