在她有自己的孩子之前,她一直无法考虑父母的死亡。当主题出现时,在谈话或自己的想象中,她只说:我只是不知道我会做什么。
(Until she had had children of her own she had not been able to contemplate the death of either of her parents; when the subject had arisen, in conversation or in her own imagining, she had said only: I just don't know what I'd do.)