Anger lay very close to disappointment, and soon won the victory over the conjectures her small ingenuity could devise to account for Arthur's absence on the supposition that he really wanted to come, really wanted to see her again.

愤怒几乎接近于失望，很快就战胜了她那小小的聪明才智所能设计出的猜想，假设他真的很想来，真的很想再见到她，以此来解释亚瑟的缺席。