我正要去厨房跟妈妈请示一下我能否到一个朋友家去，就在这时，我停了下来，因为我看到了一件奇怪的事情。

I was going to the kitchen to ask my mom if I could go to a friend's house when something I saw made me stop in my tracks.

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那天夜里我下楼到厨房的食橱去。

Night I went down to the pantry in the kitchen.

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我急中生智，建议他们帮我到厨房里去预备茶，他们俩立刻站了起来，正在这时那魔鬼般的芬兰女佣人用托盘把茶端了进来。

I had them both on their feet with the desperate suggestion that they help me make tea in the kitchen when the demoniac Finn brought it in on a tray.

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