8 FAMILY TROUBLES

CHAPTER 8 FAMILY TROUBLES No!" Little John cried. "I don't want to stay here. I want to go back to the library. Windy and Cosmo are there. We can't leave Cosmo. We can't leave Beckett, either. He'll be lonely without us." "Who's Beckett?" Grandpop asked. "He's the other ghost who lives at the library," Kaz said. "He's old. Like you," Little John added. "Little John!" Kaz nudged his brother. "That's not polite." "Oh, that's okay, Kaz," Grandmom said with a smile. "We know we're old." "Why don't you and Grandpop come to the

第八章家庭烦恼不！”小约翰哭了。 “我不想呆在这里。 我想回图书馆去。 Windy和Cosmo在那里。 我们不能离开宇宙号。我们也不能丢下贝克特。 没有我们，他会很孤单的。” “贝克特是谁?”Grandpop问道。 “他是住在图书馆的另一个鬼魂，”和子说。 “他是老了。像你一样，”小约翰补充道。 “小约翰!”卡兹推了推弟弟。 “这是不礼貌的。”“哦，没关系，卡兹，”奶奶笑着说。 “我们知道我们老了。”“你和爷爷为什么不来……

library with us?" Kaz said. "We'll have to shrink really small to fit inside Claire's bottle. But there's plenty of room for all of us at the library." Grandmom turned to Grandpop. "I like it here," she said. "I don't want to go someplace else." "Well, we like it at the library," Little John said. "I don't mean to eavesdrop," said the blue- haired solid lady. "But I think you should let those ghost children go back to the library with their friend. They want to be with people their own age." "And you two should stay here with us," said one of the ghost ladies. "I promise I'll take good care of Kaz and Little John," Claire told Grandmom and Grandpop.

和我们一起去图书馆吗？”Kaz说。 “我们得缩得很小才能塞进克莱尔的瓶子里。 但是图书馆有足够的地方容纳我们所有人。” 奶奶转向爷爷。 “我喜欢这里，”她说。 “我不想去别的地方。” “嗯，我们喜欢图书馆，”小约翰说。 “我不是故意偷听的，”蓝头发的女人说。 “但我认为你应该让那些鬼孩子和他们的朋友一起回图书馆去。 他们想和同龄人在一起。” “你们俩应该留在这儿和我们在一起，”其中一个女鬼说。 “我保证会好好照顾卡兹和小约翰，”克莱尔告诉爷爷奶奶。

"And so will Beckett. I'll bring them back here to visit you. Every day, if you want! Please?" "Pleeeease?" begged Kaz and Little John. "Well," Grandmom said. "I suppose they've gotten along on their own this long." "And it sounds like they have a responsible ghost adult looking out for them," Grandpop added. "If you promise to come back and visit often, you can go with your friend," Grandmom said. "Hooray!" Kaz, Little John, and Claire cheered. "Don't ever tell your parents we allowed this," Grandmom said. "Deal," Kaz said. On the way home, Kaz asked Claire, "Did Mr. Helsing tell you why he didn't want Mrs. Lock to knock down that wall in the library? Does he know about the secret room?" "He said that wall was a main support for the rest of the house," Claire said. "That's why it

贝克特也会。我会带他们回来看你的。 只要你愿意，每天都可以！请?”“求求你了？”卡兹和小约翰恳求道。 “嗯，”奶奶说。“我想他们已经独立生活这么久了。” “听起来他们有一个负责任的成人幽灵在照顾他们，”爷爷补充说。 “如果你答应经常回来看我，你就可以和你的朋友一起去。”奶奶说。 “万岁!”卡兹、小约翰和克莱尔欢呼起来。 “永远不要告诉你父母我们允许这样做，”奶奶说。 “成交，”卡兹说。在回家的路上，卡兹问克莱尔：“赫尔辛先生有没有告诉你他为什么不想让洛克太太推倒图书馆的那堵墙？” 他知道密室的事吗？”“他说那堵墙是房子其他部分的主要支撑，”克莱尔说。 “这就是为什么

couldn't be removed. He didn't know anything about any secret rooms or secret passageways in the house." Kaz groaned. He, Claire, and Little John were no closer to getting the Top Secret envelope out of the secret room. They were no closer to getting Claire into the secret room, either. But they had found their grandparents! That was something. Claire's mom was waiting in the entryway when Claire returned to the library. She leaped to her feet as soon as Claire opened the door. "Have you been visiting with Mrs. Lock all this time?" she asked. "Not the whole time," Claire said as she closed the door behind her. Kaz and Little John passed through Claire's water bottle and expanded to full size. Little John swam over to get his doll back from Beckett. Claire's mom followed Claire across the

无法移除。他对房子里的秘密房间和秘密通道一无所知。” Kaz呻吟着。他、克莱尔和小约翰离把绝密信封从密室里拿出来还差得远。 他们也没能把克莱尔带进密室。 但是他们找到了他们的祖父母！这很了不起。 克莱尔回到图书馆时，她妈妈正在入口处等她。 克莱尔一开门，她就跳了起来。 “这段时间你一直在拜访洛克太太吗？”她问。 “不是一直都这样，”克莱尔说着关上了身后的门。 卡兹和小约翰穿过克莱尔的水瓶，膨胀到原来的大小。 小约翰游过去把他的娃娃从贝克特手里拿回来。 克莱尔的妈妈跟着克莱尔穿过

entryway. "So, what did you and Mrs. Lock talk about?" she asked. She seemed more interested in Mrs. Lock than she was in where else Claire might have gone. "Did she say anything about a secret passageway or a secret room?" Claire's mom asked. "Does she think that old soda-pop recipe is somewhere in this house?" "I didn't ask her about the recipe," Claire said. "I only asked about the secret room." "What did she say?" Claire's mother stood so close to her and stared so hard at her that Claire was obviously uncomfortable. "She doesn't think there is one," Claire said, hanging up her coat. Claire's mom's shoulders relaxed. "Are you okay, Mom?" Claire peered at her mother. "You're acting so weird." Claire's mom ran her hand through her hair. "I don't know what you mean," she said. "Well, you didn't really want me to go visit

入口通道。“那么，你和洛克太太谈了些什么？”她问。 她似乎对洛克太太比对克莱尔可能去的其他地方更感兴趣。 “她有没有说什么秘密通道或秘密房间的事？”克莱尔的妈妈问。 “她会不会认为以前的汽水配方在这房子里的某个地方？”“我没有问她食谱的事，”克莱尔说。 “我只是问了秘密房间的事。” “她说什么？”克莱尔的母亲站得离她很近，目不转睛地盯着她，克莱尔显然感到很不舒服。 “她不认为有，”克莱尔说，挂起她的外套。 克莱尔妈妈的肩膀放松了。 “你没事吧，妈妈？”克莱尔凝视着她的母亲。 “你的行为太奇怪了。”克莱尔的妈妈用手捋了捋她的头发。 “我不明白你的意思，”她说。 “嗯，你不是真的想让我去拜访

Mrs. Lock. And now you're asking lots of questions." "I'm your mother," she said with a nervous laugh. "I get to ask questions." "Yeah, but you're asking more questions than you usually do." Claire's mom turned away. "Do you have homework?" she asked. Claire clucked her tongue. "And now you're changing the subject!" "I'm changing the subject because the subject is finished," her mom said. "Can you say the same for your homework?" "No," Claire admitted. "Fine, I'll go do it." She shouldered her backpack and headed toward the craft room. But her mom stopped her in her tracks. "I really wish you wouldn't always do your homework in the craft room. Can't you do it upstairs?" Claire turned. "What's wrong with doing it in

夫人锁。现在你问了很多问题。” “我是你妈妈，”她紧张地笑着说。 “我可以问问题。”“是的，但是你问的问题比平时多。” 克莱尔的妈妈转过身去。“你有家庭作业吗？”她问。 克莱尔咯咯地咂舌。 “现在你又在转移话题！”“我要换一个话题，因为这个话题已经结束了，”她妈妈说。 “你的家庭作业也可以这么说吗？”“不，”克莱尔承认。 “好吧，我去做。”她扛起背包，朝工艺室走去。 但她妈妈阻止了她。 “我真希望你不要总是在工艺教室做作业。 你不能在楼上做吗？”克莱儿转过身。 “这么做有什么不对