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It was nothing more selfish than that. Only I did desire, eventually, to turn into a magic carpet and carry you away to all those lands you longed to see."
沒有什么更多的奢求了。我只是期望，最終，我能變成一張魔毯，把你帶到你所渴望的任何地方去。”
As he spoke she lifted her head as though she drank something; the strange beast in her bosom began to purr...
他說話時，她抬起了頭，好像是喝了什么東西一樣；她胸中的怪獸又開始低鳴起來……
I felt, that you were more lonely than anybody else in the world, he went on, "and yet, perhaps, that you were the only person in the world who was really, truly alive."
“我覺得，你是這世上最孤獨的人了，”他繼續說道，“但是，或許，你卻是這世上唯一的一個真正地、真誠地活著的人。”
Ah, God! What had she done! How had she dared to throw away her happiness like this! This was the only man who had ever understood her. Was it too late? Could it be too late?
啊，上帝！她都做了什么！她竟然就那樣拋棄了她的幸福！這可是唯一理解她的男人啊。是不是太晚了？真的太晚了嗎？
And then the fact that you never had made friends with people. How I understood that, for neither had I. Is it just the same now?
“事實上，你從未和別人交過朋友。我非常理解，因為我也沒有朋友。你現在還是這樣嗎？”
Yes, she breathed. "Just the same. I am as alone as ever."
“是的，”她吸了一口氣，“一如既往地孤單。”
So am I, he laughed gently, "just the same."
“我也是他輕輕地笑了，“跟以前一樣。”
Suddenly, with a quick gesture he handed her back the glove and scraped his chair on the floor. "But what seemed to me so mysterious then is perfectly plain to me now. It simply was that we were such egoists, so self-engrossed, so wrapped up in ourselves that we hadn't a corner in our hearts for anybody else. Do you know," he cried, naive and hearty...
突然，他迅速地把手套遞還給她，把椅子在地板上拖了一下。“但是當時對我來說如此神秘的東西現在對我來說都很明了了。這僅僅是因為我們太以自我為中心，太顧及自己，太專注于自己了，以至于我們的心中沒有為任何人留下一席之地。你知道嗎？”他天真而由衷地哭了……
She had gone. He sat there, thunder-struck, astounded beyond words... And then he asked the waitress for his bill.
她已經走了。他坐在那里，如遭雷擊，震驚得無以言表……然后他向女服務員要來賬單。
But the cream has not been touched, he said. "Please do not charge me for it."
他說奶油沒人動過，就不要算在賬單里了吧。”
