My mother,who was visiting us,looked up from the peas she was shelling.“It’s a wonderful day,” she offered,“really warm,yet there’s a fine breeze.Do you remember that day we flew kites?”
I stopped in my dash between stove and sink.The locked door flew open and with it a rush of memories.“Come on,” I told my little girl.“You’re right,it’s too good a day to miss.”
Another decade passed.We were in the aftermath (余波)of a great war.All evening we had been asking our returned soldier,the youngest Patrick Boy,about his experiences as a prisoner of war.He had talked freely,but now for a long time he had been silent.What was he thinking of—what dark and horrible things?
“Say!” A smile slipped out from his lips.“Do you remember—no,of course you wouldn’t.It probably didn’t make the impression on you as it did on me.”
I hardly dared speak.“Remember what?”
“I used to think of that day a lot in POW camp(战俘营),when things weren’t too good.Do you remember the day we flew the kites?”
1.Mrs. Patrick was laughing guiltily because she thought
.
A.she was too old to fly kites
B.her husband would make fun of her
C.she should have been doing her housework then
D.her girls weren’t supposed to play the boys’ game
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