The day was ended--quite successfully, so far as she knew. The Trustees and the visiting committee had made their rounds, and read their reports, and drunk their tea, and now were hurrying home to their own cheerful firesides, to forget their bothersome little charges for another month. Jerusha leaned forward watching with curiosity--and a touch of wistfulness--the stream of carriages and automobiles that rolled out of the asylum gates. In imagination she followed first one equipage, then another, to the big houses dotted along the hillside. She pictured herself in a fur coat and a velvet hat trimmed with feathers leaning back in the seat and nonchalantly murmuring 'Home' to the driver. But on the door-sill of her home the picture grew blurred.

这一天就算过去了——就她所知应该是圆满落幕，因为没有出现任何差错。理事们和来访团已经巡视过一遍，听取了汇报，也喝了茶，现在正忙着赶回自家温暖的炉火边，起码要再过一个月才会想起这些需要他们照管的磨人的小家伙。乔若莎倚着窗台，好奇地看着一连串的马车、汽车穿过孤儿院的大门。她不禁产生了幻想。她想象自己跟着一辆又一辆车，来到坐落在山脚下的密密麻麻的大房子前。她看见自己穿着一件貂皮大衣，带着天鹅绒装饰的丝织帽子靠在车座上，漫不经心地对司机说“回家！”不过，当她回到家门口，整个想象就变得模糊不清了。

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