One afternoon a week or two later, Jo went outside to clear the snow away from some of the garden so that Beth could walk there when the sun came out. She looked across to the house next door - a big stone house with lovely things inside that Jo occasionally saw through the open curtains at the windows. But it seemed a lonely, lifeless kind of house, as no childrenplayed outside, no motherly face smiled at the windows, and not many people went in and out, except the old gentleman and his grandson.一兩個星期后的一個下午，喬到外面去清除花園里的積雪，這樣當太陽出來時貝絲就可以到那兒去走走了。希奧喬偶爾透過窗戶邊打開的門簾看到隔壁的房子，一座大的石頭的房子，里面有漂亮的東西。但這所房子似乎看著有些孤獨、沒有生氣的房子，外面沒有孩子玩耍，沒有母親般的臉笑看著窗戶，除了老先生和他的孫子，沒有其他多的人進出。