knowing it) shone day and night in the Narnian forest，so that the place where it grew came to be called Lantern Waste; and when，many years later，another child from our world got into Narnia，on a snowy night，she found the light still burning.And that adventure was，in a way，connected with the ones I have just been telling you.

　　It was like this.The tree which sprang from the Apple that Digory planted in the back garden，lived and grew into a fine tree.Growing in the soil of our world，far out of the sound of Aslan's voice and far from the young air of Narnia，it did not bear apples that would revive a dying woman as Digory's Mother had been revived，though it did bear apples more beautiful than any others in England，and they were extremely good for you，though not fully magical.But inside itself，in the very sap of it，the tree (so to speak) never forgot that other tree in Narnia to which it belonged.Sometimes it would move mysteriously when there was no wind blowing: I think that when this happened there were high winds in Narnia and the English tree quivered because，at that moment，the Narnia tree was rocking and swaying in a strong south­western gale.However，that might be，it was proved later that there was still magic in its wood.For when Digory was quite middle­aged (and he was a famous learned man，a Professor，and a great traveller by that time) and the Ketterleys' old house belonged to him，there was a great storm all over the south of England which blew the tree down.He couldn't bear to have it simply chopped up for firewood，so he had part of the timber made into a wardrobe，which he put in his big house in the country.And though he himself did not discover the magic properties of that wardrobe，someone else did.That was the beginning of all the comings and goings between Narnia and our world，which you can read of in other books.

　　大约一周以后，迪格雷的妈妈明显越来越好。两周后，她便能坐在花园里了。过了一个月，整幢房子都变了样。凡是妈妈喜欢的事蕾蒂姨妈都做了：窗户打开了，脏窗帘拉开后房间里一片明亮，到处都有新采的鲜花和很好吃的东西。旧钢琴调好音后，妈妈又开始了歌唱，而且和迪格雷以及波莉在一起玩耍，连蕾蒂姨妈都说："我敢说，玛贝尔，你是三个孩子中最大的一个。"

当事情不顺心时，你会发现在一段时间里会越变越糟，但当事情一旦开始好转，又常常是越来越好。这种好日子大约过了六周之后，在印度的爸爸写来一