Gould—not the well-known New England humorist or the novelist who wrote The Greenleaf Fires but a relation of both, I think—greeted me warily but with some interest.

古德不是那位著名的新英格兰幽默作家，也不是《绿叶之火》的作者，但我想他跟上述二位都是亲戚。他带着几分戒备几分兴趣接待了我。