"It's already so late," he says to himself as he envisions his wife's nagging when he gets home. "If I had known it was going to be like this," he can't help but think, "I never would have come."
他想到今天拖得這麼晚，回去免不了要聽老婆嘮叨，不禁暗罵：「早知道就不來了！」