From stubble fields sounded the long caw of rooks; a sleepy crowing ever and anon told of the neighbour farm; my doves cooed above their cot.

麦茬地里传来乌鸦的长鸣；昏昏欲睡的啼叫不时地讲述着邻居的农场；我的鸽子在他们的小床上咕咕叫。

Time thus rolls us on to a February afternoon, divided by fifteen months from the parting of Elfride and her lover in the brown stubble field towards the sea.

时间就这样把我们滚到一个二月的下午，从埃尔弗里德和她的情人在棕色的麦茬田里向大海的方向分开十五个月。