The Garden Party

And after all the weather was ideal. They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden-party if they had ordered it. Windless, warm, the sky without a cloud. Only the blue was veiled with a haze of light gold, as it is sometimes in early summer. The gardener had been up since dawn, mowing the lawns and sweeping them, until the grass and the dark flat rosettes where the daisy plants had been seemed to shine. As for the roses, you could not help feeling they understood that roses are the only flowers that impress people at garden-parties; the only flowers that everybody is certain of knowing.

毕竟天气很理想。如果他们订购了花园派对，那就再没有比这更完美的一天了。无风，温暖，天空万里无云。只有蓝色笼罩着一层浅金色的薄雾，就像初夏时节的情况一样。园丁从黎明起就起床，修剪草坪、清扫草坪，直到草地和原本种着雏菊的深色扁平莲座丛似乎闪闪发亮。至于玫瑰，你不禁会觉得他们明白，玫瑰是花园聚会上唯一能给人留下深刻印象的花朵；每个人都确信认识的唯一花朵。