In the following days I often looked around on my way in and out of the building, half hoping to see the girl - so as to clear up my doubts about her - and half hoping she had moved on for good, so that I shouldn't have to think of her again.
此後幾天，出入家門時我不免探望。一半希望能見到她，一解我的疑團；一半希望她從此消失，我不必再為她分神。