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Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them. For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event happened,
孩子们常会遇到顶奇怪的事儿，可是毫不觉得惊恐不安。例如，事情发生了一个星期以后，他们会突然想起来说，
that when they were in the wood they had met their dead father and had a game with him. It was in this casual way that Wendy one morning made a disquieting revelation.
在树林里遇到了死去的父亲，并且和他一起玩。温迪就是这样。有一天早上，她漫不经心地说出了一件叫人心神不安的事。
Some leaves of a tree had been found on the nursery floor, which certainly were not there when the children went to bed,
育儿室的地板上发现有几片树叶，而晚上孩子们上床时明明还没有；
and Mrs. Darling was puzzling over them when Wendy said with a tolerant smile:
达林太太觉得这事很蹊跷，温迪却毫不在意地笑着说：
"I do believe it is that Peter again!"
“我相信这又是那个彼得干的！”
"Whatever do you mean, Wendy?"
“你是什么意思，温迪？”
"It is so naughty of him not to wipe," Wendy said, sighing. She was a tidy child.
“他真淘气，玩完了也不扫地。”温迪说，叹了一口气。她是个爱整洁的孩子。
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.
她像真有那么回事似的解释说，她觉得彼得有时夜里来到育儿室，坐在她的床脚那头，吹笛子给她听。
Unfortunately she never woke, so she didn't know how she knew, she just knew.
可惜她从来没有醒来过，所以她不知道自己是怎么知道的，反正她知道。
"What nonsense you talk, precious. No one can get into the house without knocking."
“你胡说些什么，宝贝！不敲门谁也进不了屋。”
"I think he comes by the window," she said.
“我想他是从窗子里进来的。”温迪说。
"My love, it is three floors up."
“亲爱的，这是三楼啊！”
"Were not the leaves at the foot of the window, mother?"
“树叶不就是在窗子底下吗，妈妈？”
It was quite true; the leaves had been found very near the window.
这倒是真的；树叶就是在离窗子很近的地方发现的。
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.
达林太太不知该怎么想才是，因为在温迪看来，这一切都那么自然，你不能说她在做梦，把它随随便便打发掉。
"My child," the mother cried, "why did you not tell me of this before?"
“我的孩子，”她妈妈喊道，“你为什么不早告诉我？”
"I forgot," said Wendy lightly. She was in a hurry to get her breakfast.
“我忘了。”温迪不在意地说，她急着要去吃早饭。
Oh, surely she must have been dreaming.
啊，她一定是在做梦。
But, on the other hand, there were the leaves. Mrs. Darling examined them carefully; they were skeleton leaves,
可是话又说回来，树叶是明摆着的。达林太太仔细察看了这些树叶，那是些枯叶，
but she was sure they did not come from any tree that grew in England. She crawled about the floor, peering at it with a candle for marks of a strange foot.
不过她敢断定，那绝不是从英国的树上掉下来的叶子。她在地板上爬来爬去，用一支蜡烛在地上照，想看看有没有生人的脚印。
She rattled the poker up the chimney and tapped the walls.
她用火棍在烟囱里乱捅，敲着墙。
She let down a tape from the window to the pavement, and it was a sheer drop of thirty feet, without so much as a spout to climb up by.
她从窗口放下一根带子到地上，窗子的高度足足有三十英尺，墙上连一个可供攀登的喷水口都没有。
Certainly Wendy had been dreaming.
温迪一定是在做梦。
