As I looked around her tiny studio, I was astonished not so much by what she'd lost, but by what she'd managed to hold on to: her brass samovar, her marble-topped buffet, her canopied bed.

我四处看着她很小的工作间，感到惊奇地倒不是她丢掉的，而是多年来她一直保留的：铜茶壶，大理石作顶的餐饮台，遮有天蓬的床。