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简单说，这就是一个争风吃醋的梗，笑。看样子，当年F面临的竞争也很激烈呢，难怪1915年，日记里恨恨地说起那句，恨对方甜蜜，没说真心话，等着Maurice尽快完成。
这两个人因为不坦诚，所以总是没完没了地吃对方的醋，偏偏吃的根本不对路，自己爱人的心其实根本就一心只在自己身上啊。相比之下，F倒是更任性些了。
Lucy/M, Charlette/F
Lucy说话"I don't care if he does. I was grateful to you for your letter, but even if the news does get round, I think I can trust Cecil to laugh at it."
言下之意，F你不用担心消息传开。Cecil根本不在乎。
"To contradict it?"反驳
反驳是如果有人对你的M做了这件事，F你的反应吧
"No, to laugh at it."
M在意识层面其实一直追求的都是相对稳定成熟的关系
"Very well, dear, you know best. Perhaps gentlemen are different to what they were when I was young. Ladies are certainly different."
吃醋了，干脆嘲讽M了
"Now, Charlotte!" She struck at her playfully. "You kind, anxious thing. What WOULD you have me do? First you say 'Don't tell'; and then you say, 'Tell'. Which is it to be? Quick!"
其实当年，F真的太年轻了，根本没有好好考虑过两个人的将来。只知道，爱的话，我们就一直在一起吧，却根本没考虑过如何面对家人朋友，甚至没有为自己和M打算过。发生了这种事情，也就由着自己的性子来，怎么能让M放心呢。所以M总是没信心，也不是没有道理的。
这种事情，如果做了，就坚定地告诉对方，回到我身边来吧。我爱你。我们在一起，告诉所有人。
而不要反复半天，说，不说，这对M的神经确实是一种折磨啊。唉，那些行为我都看懂了，F却还没有，真是迟钝得可以。
Charlette说话，问起George的态度"What line is he taking up?"
"No line. He talked about Italy, like any other person. It is really all right. What advantage would he get from being a cad无赖, to put it bluntly直率地迟钝地?
"Once a cad, always a cad. That is my poor opinion." Charlette/F暗指自己不会放弃的。
Lucy paused. "Cecil said one day—and I thought it so profound—that there are two kinds of cads—the conscious意识 and the subconscious潜意识."
这话就说的很绝望了。身边聪明人太多，也不是好事啊。就像Lytton对F说M撒谎一样。
She paused again, to be sure of doing justice to Cecil's profundity. Through the window she saw Cecil himself, turning over the pages of a novel.看见Cecil在看小说
"What I mean by subconscious is that Emerson lost his head. I fell into all those violets, and he was silly and surprised. I don't think we ought to blame him very
