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【英文原文2】
They began to talk of different things. The girl told him her name was Louise. She thought he was about 33 years, more than 12 years younger than he really was, and this delighted Peter. Now chatting, laughing with this dark hair blue eyed girl, he seemed to go back again through the years to those days when he was young and free. He knew clearly he could not possibly mean anything to her and he could not forget he was a family man with responsibilities and a son who loved him and looked up to him. And yet it was strange that he couldn’t stop now. “Let’s go to the Ferris wheel. Do you like that？”Peter asked her. Louise’s face lit up and Peter noticed how eager her eyes were.
She sat closely against him and the great wheel turned and sent them skyward5). He felt her finger holding his own and warm blood rose within him. The world seemed so much more alive, almost new again. After the Ferris wheel, they tried a small motor boat, and after that they had ice cream and cake. They entered a dance hall. Peter discovered himself as a good dancer as ever and in dancing he forgot everything, his wife, his child and everything.
He was ２１again. This blue eyed girl at his side, this lovely stranger leaned upon6) him, clung to7) him, was his sweetheart. Louise said, “I wonder why, but I do so much enjoy being with you. Somehow you seem different. Where do you live？I have never seen you before. I’d like to, well what I mean is don’t you think we two get along so nicely？”“You are perfectly right. Louise, shall we dance some more？”“Peter, ”She spoke his name as if she were truly his girlfriend, as if she had taken him for her own. “Peter, don’t you believe that we should see each other again？”She leaned closer. Soon Peter was not sure of himself.
Sooner or later he knew it would come to this. He tried to remain calm. Finally he said：“That is easy. Let me have your telephone number and I’ll give you a call. ”When the sun was setting, Peter took her home in his car. Though she probably expected him to, he made no attempt to kiss her. He didn’t even ask her to let him into her house.
