At the dinner table, ordinarily as noisy as a duck pond, the four sisters seem to be rehearsing a dumb show. Even their spoons and chop-sticks seem to have heard the news and to have suddenly become cautious and careful.
平時鴨塘一般的餐桌，四姐妹這時像在演啞劇，連筷子和調羹都似乎得到了消息，忽然小心翼翼起來。