透过窗帷,阿尔彪看见两名妇女,一个身材比另一个大一倍。她们身穿夏服,模样很象他在菲律宾老家见过的那些到处兜售米糕的乡下姑娘。瘦小的那个妇女长得跟他亡妻赛娘的妹妹差不多。阿尔彪只在相片中见过妻妹,因为她从来没有到过美国。赛娘亡故前,他们夫妻俩曾设法给她弄到了申请签证的一切证件,以便让她来旧金山居住。这位妹妹来信时总说“快准备好了,所有公文上都签上 Through the curtains, Al Biao saw two women, one more than the other two. In summer clothes, they look a lot like the country girls who sell rice cakes everywhere they see them in the Philippines. The thin woman looks like his sister, the wife of his dead wife. Albiao only seen his wife and sister in the photo, because she has never been to the United States. Before the matchmaker died, the couple had managed to get her all the documents she had to apply for a visa so she could live in San Francisco. When she wrote her letter, she said, "I’m almost ready, and I have signed all the documents