Peter Pan — Page 11

她用一种十分平淡的语气解释说，她觉得彼得有时会在夜里来到育儿室，坐在她床脚，为她吹奏风笛。

She explained in quite a matter-of-fact way that she thought Peter sometimes came to the nursery in the night and sat on the foot of her bed and played on his pipes to her.

不幸的是她从未醒来，所以她也不知道自己是怎么知道的，她就是知道。

Unfortunately she never woke, so she didn't know how she knew, she just knew.

「你说的是什么胡话，宝贝。没有人能不敲门就进入这所房子。」

"What nonsense you talk, precious. No one can get into the house without knocking."

「我想他是从窗户进来的，」她说。

"I think he comes in by the window," she said.

「亲爱的，那可是三层楼高啊。」

"My love, it is three floors up."

「窗台下面不是有树叶吗，妈妈？」

"Were not the leaves at the foot of the window, mother?"

这倒是真的；那些树叶确实是在窗户附近被发现的。

It was quite true; the leaves had been found very near the window.

达令太太不知道该怎么想，因为这一切对温迪来说似乎是那么自然，你无法用她在做梦来搪塞过去。

Mrs. Darling did not know what to think, for it all seemed so natural to Wendy that you could not dismiss it by saying she had been dreaming.

「孩子，」妈妈喊道，「你为什么以前不告诉我这件事？」

"My child," the mother cried, "why did you not tell me of this before?"

「我忘了，」温迪轻描淡写地说。她正急着去吃早饭。

"I forgot," said Wendy lightly. She was in a hurry to get her breakfast.

哦，她肯定是在做梦吧。

Oh, surely she must have been dreaming.

但另一方面，那些树叶还摆在那里。

But, on the other hand, there were the leaves.

达令太太仔细地检查了那些树叶；它们是镂空的叶脉叶片，但她确信它们并非来自英国生长的任何树木。

Mrs. Darling examined them very carefully; they were skeleton leaves, but she was sure they did not come from any tree that grew in England.

她在地板上爬来爬去，拿着蜡烛仔细查看地面上是否有陌生的脚印。她用拨火棍伸进烟囱里拨弄，又敲了敲墙壁。

She crawled about the floor, peering at it with a candle for marks of a strange foot. She rattled the poker up the chimney and tapped the walls.