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They all gathered round him in affright, so alarming was his agitation;
他们全都焦急不安地围拢来，因为彼得的激动惹得大伙惊慌起来；
and with a fine candour he told them what he had hitherto concealed.
于是，彼得一五一十地向他们说出了他一直深藏在心里的话。
"Long ago," he said," I thought like you that my mother would always keep the window open for me,
“很久以前，”彼得说，“我也和你们一样，相信我的母亲会永远开着窗子等我；
so I stayed away for moons and moons and moons, and then flew back;
所以，我在外面呆了一个月又一个月才飞回去；
but the window was barred, for mother had forgotten all about me, and there was another little boy sleeping in my bed."
可是，窗子已经上了栓，因为母亲已经把我全忘了，另有一个小男孩睡在了我的床上。”
I am not sure that this was true, but Peter thought it was true;and it scared them.
我不确定这是真的，彼得认为这是真的；这可把他们吓坏了。
"Are you sure mothers are like that?"
“你能肯定母亲们就是这样吗？”
"Yes."
“是的。”
So this was the truth about mothers. The toads!
这么说，母亲们原来是这样，真卑鄙！
Still it is best to be careful; and no one knows so quickly as a child when he should give in.
不过，还是小心些好；什么时候应该放弃自己的信念，只有小孩最清楚。
"Wendy, let us go home," cried Michael and John together.
“温迪，我们回家吧。”约翰和迈克尔一齐喊道。
"Yes," she said, clutching them.
“好吧。”温迪搂着他们回答。
"Not to-night?" asked the lost boys bewildered.
“该不会是今晚吧？”遗失的孩子们迷惑地问。
They knew in what they called their hearts that one can get on quite well without a mother, and that it is only the mothers who think you can't.
在他们心里，他们知道没有母亲也可以过得满好，只有母亲们才认为，没有她们孩子们就没法过。
"At once," Wendy replied resolutely, for the horrible thought had come to her:"Perhaps mother is in half mourning by this time."
“马上就走。”温迪果断地说。因为她忽然想到一个可怕的念头：“说不定母亲这时已经在哀悼他们了。”
This dread made her forgetful of what must be Peter's feelings,
这种恐惧使她忘记了彼得的心情，
and she said to him rather sharply, "Peter, will you make the necessary arrangements?"
她猛地对彼得说：“彼得，请你做必要的准备，好吗？”
"If you wish it," he replied, as coolly as if she had asked him to pass the nuts.
“遵命。”彼得冷冷地回答，那神态就像温迪请他递个坚果似的。
Not so much as a sorry-to-lose-you between them! If she did not mind the parting, he was going to show her, was Peter, that neither did he.
两人之间连一句惜别的话也没说。要是温迪不在乎分手，那么，他也要让她瞧瞧，他彼得也不在乎。
