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 .
这个聚会可能是一个重拾失去的少女纯真的机会,也可能玛格丽特要在声名狼藉之后谋求一个外在的体面。
Their lives were not idle , but the path to respectability was through military service or farming , rather than trade .