太阳慢慢滑下街衢，落在吉姆的房子上。埃伦也像受到惊吓，影子一样消失了。

The sun slides down the street and settles on Jim \ 's house and Ellen fades like a startled shadow.

在出生的地方他们好像是过客；从孩提时代就非常熟悉的浓荫郁郁的小巷，同小伙伴游戏其中的人烟稠密的街衢，对他们来说都不过是旅途中的一个宿站。

They are strangers in their birthplace, and the leafy lanes they have known from childhood or the populous streets in which they have played, remain but a place of passage.