Yet her experience had consisted less in a series of pure disappointments than in a series of substitutions. Continually it had happened that what she had desired had not been granted her, and that what had been granted her she had not desired.

然而，她的经历与其说是一连串单纯的失望，不如说是一连串替代。她一次次未能得到自己渴望的东西，而得到的，却并非自己原先所求。