ラジオ英会話　Lesson 218 否定 ⑤ not の「繰り上げ」

Peacock: I don’t think I’m ready to return it.

Aki: You haven’t solved the mystery yet? The letter by Kinzo, the smartphone inside it?

Peacock: I don’t know who put that in there. Aki, the letter mentions an “American woman.”

Aki: Yes. Kinzo wrote that he fell in love with her, but he couldn’t tell her.

Peacock: So, that’s why the letter is in Japanese?

Aki: I guess so.

Peacock: It sounds like he was lonely.

I don’t expect they’ll come.

It doesn’t seem that we’ll have time.