My Dear Lucy,
I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realised that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still.But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it.I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand, a word you say, but I shall still be
your afectionate Godfather,
C. S.Lewis
親愛的露西,
我為你寫下這個故事,只是提筆時未曾想,你成長的速度超過我寫故事的速度,你現在甚至已經過了讀童話的年紀。等到此書付梓裝訂,你年歲愈增。但是他日某天,你會長到重新翻看童話的年齡。到那時,你可以將本書從高閣取下,撣去灰塵,告訴我你的讀后感想??赡苣菚r我年事已高,耳聾到聽不清你說話,也不明白你講的任何一個字,但我一直都是
深愛你的教父,
C. S.劉易斯