Miss Margitan sat ramrod-straight with her arthritic hands folded in her lap and her gray eyes fixed unflinchingly on my face, and I realized that something about her was different from any other adult I had ever met.
僵直地坐在那里,害关节炎的双手合在腿
,灰色的眼睛毫不妥协地瞪着我的脸,那时我意识到,
什么地方跟我之前遇到的大人都不一样。