Perhaps the reunion was an opportunity to recapture the lost innocence of youth , or perhaps margaret was seeking a veneer of respectability after a notorious past .
這個聚會可能是一個重拾失去的少女純真的機會,也可能瑪格麗特要在聲名狼藉之后謀求一個外在的體面。
Their lives were not idle , but the path to respectability was through military service or farming , rather than trade .