The Godfather 教父 Chapter 25

When Kay Adams received her college degree, she took a job teaching grade school in her New Hampshire hometown. The first six months after Michael vanished she made weekly telephone calls to his mother asking about him. Mrs. Corleone was always friendly and always wound up saying, "You a very very nice girl. You forget about Mikey and find a nice husband." Kay was not offended at her bluntness and understood that the mother spoke ¹ out of concern for her as a young girl in an impossible situation., , When her first school term ended, she decided ³ to go to New York to buy some decent clothes and see some old college girl friends. She thought also about looking for some sort of interesting job in New York. She had lived like a spinster for almost two years, reading and teaching, refusing dates, refusing to go out at all, even though she had given up making calls to Long Beach. She knew she couldn't keep that up, she was becoming irritable ⁴ and unhappy. But she had always believed Michael would write her or send her a message of some sort. That he had not done so humiliated ⁵ her, it saddened her that he was so distrustful even of her., , She took an early train and was checked into her hotel by midafternoon. Her girl friends worked and she didn't want to bother them at their jobs, she planned to call them at night. And she didn't really feel like going shopping after the exhausting train trip. Being alone in the hotel room, remembering all the times she and Michael had used hotel rooms to make love, gave her a feeling of desolation. It was that more than anything else that gave her the idea of calling Michael's mother out in Long Beach., , , Kay was a little embarrassed now. "This is Kay Adams, Mrs. Corleone," she said. "Do you remember me?", , "Sure, sure, I remember you," Mrs. Corleone said. "How come you no call up no more? You get a married?", ,The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒 。,We must be fair and consider the reason pro and con.我们必须公平考虑赞成和反对的理由。