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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."
没有什么更多的奢求了。我只是期望，最终，我能变成一张魔毯，把你带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...
他说话时，她抬起了头，好像是喝了什么东西一样；她胸中的怪兽又开始低鸣起来……
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."
“我觉得，你是这世上最孤独的人了，”他继续说道，“但是，或许，你却是这世上唯一的一个真正地、真诚地活着的人。”
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！她竟然就那样抛弃了她的幸福！这可是唯一理解她的男人啊。是不是太晚了？真的太晚了吗？
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?
“事实上，你从未和别人交过朋友。我非常理解，因为我也没有朋友。你现在还是这样吗？”
Yes, she breathed. "Just the same. I am as alone as ever."
“是的，”她吸了一口气，“一如既往地孤单。”
So am I, he laughed gently, "just the same."
“我也是他轻轻地笑了，“跟以前一样。”
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，他迅速地把手套递还给她，把椅子在地板上拖了一下。“但是当时对我来说如此神秘的东西现在对我来说都很明了了。这仅仅是因为我们太以自我为中心，太顾及自己，太专注于自己了，以至于我们的心中没有为任何人留下一席之地。你知道吗？”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.
她已经走了。他坐在那里，如遭雷击，震惊得无以言表……然后他向女服务员要来账单。
But the cream has not been touched, he said. "Please do not charge me for it."
他说奶油没人动过，就不要算在账单里了吧。”
