The other great houses belonged to kinsmen or to childhood friends of Julia’s, and besides them there were countless substantial houses in the squares of Mayfair and Belgravia, alight and thronged, one or other of them, night after night. Foreigners returning on post from their own waste lands wrote home that here they seemed to catch a glimpse of the world they had believed lost forever, among the mud and wire. 其他的豪華房子是屬于親戚或者Julia兒時(shí)的朋友們的，除了它們?cè)贛ayfair和Belgravia地帶還有無(wú)數(shù)堅(jiān)固的房屋，鱗次櫛比，燈火通明，夜復(fù)一夜。外國(guó)人在從他們的廢土國(guó)度發(fā)回的家書(shū)電報(bào)中寫(xiě)道，在這里，泥土與金屬線(xiàn)網(wǎng)之間，他們好似瞥見(jiàn)了一個(gè)他們之前深信已經(jīng)永久消失的世界。