この場面を読み終えました

警察への恨みを語る老人の酒の誘いを断り、ワトソンは見送られる間だけ街道を歩く。その後、荒れ地へ入り、少年が消えた丘へ向かう。
"Just as you wish."
「お望みどおりに」
"They have treated me shamefully—shamefully. When the facts come out in Frankland v. Regina I venture to think that a thrill of indignation will run through the country. Nothing would induce me to help the police in any way. For all they cared it might have been me, instead of my effigy, which these rascals burned at the stake. Surely you are not going! You will help me to empty the decanter in honour of this great occasion!"
「警察は私を恥ずべき扱いにしました——実に恥ずべき扱いです。フランクランド対国王の事実が明らかになれば、憤りの震えが国中を走るだろうと思います。何があろうと、警察に手を貸す気はありません。あの悪党どもが火あぶりにしたのは私の人形でしたが、警察にとっては私本人でも構わなかったのでしょう。まさか、もうお帰りになるのではないでしょうね。この偉大な出来事を祝って、デカンターを空にするのを手伝ってください」
But I resisted all his solicitations and succeeded in dissuading him from his announced intention of walking home with me. I kept the road as long as his eye was on me, and then I struck off across the moor and made for the stony hill over which the boy had disappeared. Everything was working in my favour, and I swore that it should not be through lack of energy or perseverance that I should miss the chance which fortune had thrown in my way.
しかし私はあらゆる誘いを断り、家まで歩いて送るという彼の宣言を、どうにか思いとどまらせた。彼の目が届く間は道を進み、その後で荒れ地へ踏み込み、少年が消えた石だらけの丘へ向かった。全てが私に有利に動いていた。運命が差し出した機会を、行動力や粘り強さが足りないために逃すことだけはないと誓った。