“他期望……” 她突然停了下来，说，“我们最好再喝一杯。”
“He expected-” She stopped suddenly, said, “We’d better have another drink.”
杰克引起酒保的注意，喊道：“再来两杯一样的。” 然后对海伦说：“继续说。他期望什么？”
Jake attracted the bartender’s attention, called, “Two more of the same,” and said to Helene, “Go on. He expected what?”
“等一下。” 她的眼睛突然睁得大大的，充满梦幻，几乎闪闪发光。“他确实期望能找到莫娜?麦克莱恩谋杀冈布里尔的动机。但不是这种。绝不是像冈布里尔对她进行丑恶的勒索之类的。你也期望不是这样的动机。我知道你是这样想的。”
“Wait a minute.” Her eyes had suddenly grown large and dreamy, almost luminous. “He did expect to find a motive for Mona McClane’s murdering Gumbril. But a different kind. Nothing like Gumbril’s having an ugly blackmail hold over her. And you expected it too. I know you did.”
她停顿了一下，这时酒保又拿来两杯黑麦威士忌，她的下巴搁在拳头上。
She paused while the bartender brought two more ryes, her chin resting on her fist.
“你明白吗，杰克？一直以来，莫娜身上都有一些英勇和快乐的特质。那个赌注本身 —— 送那个暖手筒的举动 —— 所有的一切。我们一直在为其他人找到杀他的动机 —— 卢拉梅、整个桑德斯家族、奥格特里夫人 —— 但不是莫娜。所以看起来动机一定和那个赌注本身一样英勇。现在却变成这样，一个肮脏、丑陋、普通的犯罪动机 ——！” 突然，毫无预兆地，泪水开始从她脸上流下来。“我受不了。我无法忍受事情变成这样。” 她在手提包里摸索着找手帕，没找到，无力地说：“该死！”
“Do you see, Jake? There’s been something heroic and gay about Mona all this time. The bet itself-the gesture of sending that muff-everything. We kept finding motives for other people to have killed him-Lulamay, the whole Sanders family, Mrs. Ogletree-but not Mona. So it seemed that the motive must be something as heroic as the bet itself. Now to have it e down to this, a sordid, ugly, ordinary motive for a monplace crime-!” Suddenly, without warning, tears began to stream down her face. “I can’t bear it. I can’t bear to have it turn out this way.” She fumbled in her purse for a handkerchief, didn’t find one, and said feebly, “Hell!”
杰克盯着她，从口袋里掏出一块手帕递给她。她擦了擦脸，大声擤了擤鼻子，说：“现在一切都结束了，我们知道了事情为什么会发生。” 然后立刻又开始哭起来。
Jake stared at her, drew a handkerchief from his pocket, and handed it to her. She mopped her face, blew her nose noisily, and said, “Now it’s all over and we know just why it happened,” and immediately began to weep again.
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