When noon came, she put off her apron and sneaked away from the hospital while Mrs. Merriwether was busy writing a letter for a gangling, illiterate mountaineer.

• 一到中午，她就解下围裙，从医院溜出来，这时梅里韦瑟太太正忙着替一个瘦高的不识字的山民伤兵写信，思嘉觉得她再也无法忍受了。