Peter Pan and Wendy. Адаптированная книга PRE-INTERMEDIATE (A2) - страница 4
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Chapter II: The Shadow
Mrs. Darling screamed. At that moment, the door opened, and Nana, the family’s dog, ran in. Nana growled and jumped at the boy. He quickly leapt out of the window and disappeared into the night.
Mrs. Darling gasped, thinking he had fallen. She hurried outside to look for him, but there was no sign of his body on the ground. Looking up, she saw only a shooting star in the dark sky.
When she returned to the nursery, she found Nana holding something in her mouth – it was the boy’s shadow! The boy had escaped, but Nana had closed the window just in time to trap the shadow inside.
«What is this?» Mrs. Darling wondered, taking the shadow from Nana. She examined it closely, but it looked like an ordinary shadow.
Nana thought the boy might come back for it. She wanted to hang the shadow near the window so he could find it easily without waking the children. However, Mrs. Darling decided against it. «It will look like laundry,» she thought, «and that will make the house look untidy.»
Instead, Mrs. Darling folded the shadow neatly and placed it in a drawer. She wanted to tell Mr. Darling about it, but he was busy counting coats for the children with a towel around his head, trying to think clearly. «If I tell him now,» she thought, «he will just blame Nana.»
A week later, on a Friday night, the Darlings were getting ready for a dinner party. Mrs. Darling often said afterward, «I should have been more careful – it was a Friday.»
The children were lively that evening. Michael, the youngest, refused to take his bath. «I won’t go to bed!» he shouted. «It’s not bedtime yet, Nana! I don’t love you anymore!»
Mrs. Darling entered the room in her lovely white evening dress. The children loved seeing her dressed up, and she always wore a necklace and bracelet they admired. She smiled and calmed Michael, gently guiding him to the bath.
John and Wendy, the older children, were playing pretend. John said, «Mrs. Darling, I am happy to tell you that you are now a mother!» Wendy laughed and danced around, pretending to be a happy mother.