Thus, looking at things with an inward vision, she lost consciousness of the flight of time.

于是，用内在的眼光看待事物，她失去了时间流逝的意识。

Mr. Hopkins, the meek-mannered draper opposite, was the first to act on this inward vision, being the more ambitious of a little masculine talk because his customers were chiefly women.

霍普金斯先生，他对面那个温文尔雅的服装商，是第一个按照这种内心愿景采取行动的人，因为他的顾客主要是女性，所以他在男性化的谈话中更具雄心。