アンの青春15章13

Paul had talked so much to Anne about his mother and father that she felt as if she had known them. She thought his mother must have been very like what he was himself, in temperament and disposition; and she had an idea that Stephen Irving was a rather reserved man with a deep and tender nature which he kept hidden scrupulously from the world.

temperament:激しい気性
disposition:気質
rather:多少
reserved:控えめな
tender:優しい
scrupulously:綿密に

父親と母親のことをポールが沢山話してくれたので、アンも二人を知っていたような気がした。母親はポールと似ていたに違いない、激しい気性も気質も；そしてスティーブン・アーヴィングは深く優しい性質を世の中の人たちにはわからないようにしている控えめな人物だと思った。