Sister Mary Kevin had been bandying it about my second-grade class at school. But when she said it, for our first communion and our first confession, and everybody knew that was really all about the white dress and the white veil. And anyway, I hadn't really paid all that much attention to that phrase, "age of reason."
２年生のクラスで シスターが言ってたの でもシスターが言ってたのは 初めての聖餐や懺悔の準備に関わる― 興奮のように聞こえたのよ 白いドレスを着てベールをつけることだって思ってた “分別年齢”という表現は 深く考えたことがなかったから