The other great houses belonged to kinsmen or to childhood friends of Julia’s, and besides them there were countless substantial houses in the squares of Mayfair and Belgravia, alight and thronged, one or other of them, night after night. Foreigners returning on post from their own waste lands wrote home that here they seemed to catch a glimpse of the world they had believed lost forever, among the mud and wire. 其他的豪華房子是屬于親戚或者Julia兒時的朋友們的，除了它們在Mayfair和Belgravia地帶還有無數(shù)堅固的房屋，鱗次櫛比，燈火通明，夜復一夜。外國人在從他們的廢土國度發(fā)回的家書電報中寫道，在這里，泥土與金屬線網(wǎng)之間，他們好似瞥見了一個他們之前深信已經(jīng)永久消失的世界。