Late one winter evening, Mr. Grey arrived at a small railway station. The journey by train that day had not been at all interesting, and Mr. Grey was cold and tired and hungry. He was longing for a simple but satisfying meal by a bright burning fire, and then a hot bath and a comfortable bed.
While he was walking to the taxi stand, he said to a local man who was also walking there. “As this is my first visit to this part of the country and I was in too much of a hurry to find out about hotels before I left home, I would very much like to know how many hotels you have here?” The local man answered, “We have two,”
“And which of the two would you advise me to go to?” Mr. Grey asked then.
The local man scratched（挠）his head for a few moments and then answered, “Well, it’s like this: whichever one you go to, you’ll be sorry you didn’t go to the other.”
虽然他是步行到的士站，他说一个本地男子谁也走那里。他说：“这是我第一次访问这个国家的一部分，我在太急于了解酒店内大部分是在我离开家，我很想知道你有多少酒店在这里？”的本地男子回答说：“我们有两个，”
“而且这两个你会建议我去？”格雷先生于是问。
当地男子抓伤
他的头了一会儿，然后回答：“嗯，是这样的：无论是你去，你会后悔你没有去对方。”
