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1Even then Mrs. Darling was placid. "Let me try, dear," she said, and indeed that was what he had come to ask her to do,
2and with her nice cool hands she tied his tie for him, while the children stood around to see their fate decided. Some
3men would have resented her being able to do it so easily, but Mr. Darling had far too fine a nature for that; he
4thanked her carelessly, at once forgot his rage, and in another moment was dancing round the room with Michael on his
5back. "How wildly we romped!" says Mrs. Darling now, recalling it. "Our last romp!" Mr. Darling groaned. "O George, do
6you remember Michael suddenly said to me, 'How did you get to know me, mother?'" "I remember!" "They were rather sweet,
7don't you think, George?" "And they were ours, ours! and now they are gone." The romp had ended with the appearance of
8Nana, and most unluckily Mr. Darling collided against her, covering his trousers with hairs. They were not only new
9trousers, but they were the first he had ever had with braid on them, and he had had to bite his lip to prevent the
10tears coming. Of course Mrs. Darling brushed him, but he began to talk again about its being a mistake to have a dog for
11a nurse. "George, Nana is a treasure." "No doubt, but I have an uneasy feeling at times that she looks upon the children
12as puppies." "Oh no, dear one, I feel sure she knows they have souls." "I wonder," Mr. Darling said thoughtfully, "I
13wonder." It was an opportunity, his wife felt, for telling him about the boy. At first he pooh-poohed the story, but he
14became thoughtful when she showed him the shadow. "It is nobody I know," he said, examining it carefully, "but it does
15look a scoundrel." "We were still discussing it, you remember," says Mr. Darling, "when Nana came in with Michael's
16medicine. You will never carry the bottle in your mouth again, Nana, and it is all my fault." Strong man though he was,
17there is no doubt that he had behaved rather foolishly over the medicine. If he had a weakness, it was for thinking that
18all his life he had taken medicine boldly, and so now, when Michael dodged the spoon in Nana's mouth, he had said
19reprovingly, "Be a man, Michael." "Won't; won't!" Michael cried naughtily. Mrs. Darling left the room to get a chocolate
20for him, and Mr. Darling thought this showed want of firmness. "Mother, don't pamper him," he called after her.
21"Michael, when I was your age I took medicine without a murmur. I said, 'Thank you, kind parents, for giving me bottles
22to make me well.'" He really thought this was true, and Wendy, who was now in her night-gown, believed it also, and she
23said, to encourage Michael, "That medicine you sometimes take, father, is much nastier, isn't it?" "Ever so much
24nastier," Mr. Darling said bravely, "and I would take it now as an example to you, Michael, if I hadn't lost the
25bottle." He had not exactly lost it; he had climbed in the dead of night to the top of the wardrobe and hidden it there.
26What he did not know was that the faithful Liza had found it, and put it back on his wash-stand. "I know where it is,
27father," Wendy cried, always glad to be of service. "I'll bring it," and she was off before he could stop her.
28Immediately his spirits sank in the strangest way. "John," he said, shuddering, "it's most beastly stuff. It's that
29nasty, sticky, sweet kind." "It will soon be over, father," John said cheerily, and then in rushed Wendy with the
30medicine in a glass. "I have been as quick as I could," she panted. "You have been wonderfully quick," her father
31retorted, with a vindictive politeness that was quite thrown away upon her. "Michael first," he said doggedly. "Father
32first," said Michael, who was of a suspicious nature. "I shall be sick, you know," Mr. Darling said threateningly. "Come
33on, father," said John. "Hold your tongue, John," his father rapped out. Wendy was quite puzzled. "I thought you took it
34quite easily, father." "That is not the point," he retorted. "The point is, that there is more in my glass than in
35Michael's spoon." His proud heart was nearly bursting. "And it isn't fair: I would say it though it were with my last
36breath; it isn't fair." "Father, I am waiting," said Michael coldly. "It's all very well to say you are waiting; so am I
37waiting." "Father's a cowardly custard." "So are you a cowardly custard." "I'm not frightened." "Neither am I
38frightened." "Well, then, take it." "Well, then, you take it." Wendy had a splendid idea. "Why not both take it at the
39same time?" "Certainly," said Mr. Darling. "Are you ready, Michael?" Wendy gave the words, one, two, three, and Michael
40took his medicine, but Mr. Darling slipped his behind his back. There was a yell of rage from Michael, and "O father!"
41Wendy exclaimed. "What do you mean by 'O father'?" Mr. Darling demanded. "Stop that row, Michael. I meant to take mine,
42but I--I missed it." It was dreadful the way all the three were looking at him, just as if they did not admire him.
43"Look here, all of you," he said entreatingly, as soon as Nana had gone into the bathroom. "I have just thought of a
44splendid joke. I shall pour my medicine into Nana's bowl, and she will drink it, thinking it is milk!" It was the colour
45of milk; but the children did not have their father's sense of humour, and they looked at him reproachfully as he poured
46the medicine into Nana's bowl. "What fun!" he said doubtfully, and they did not dare expose him when Mrs. Darling and
47Nana returned. "Nana, good dog," he said, patting her, "I have put a little milk into your bowl, Nana." Nana wagged her
48tail, ran to the medicine, and began lapping it. Then she gave Mr. Darling such a look, not an angry look: she showed
49him the great red tear that makes us so sorry for noble dogs, and crept into her kennel. Mr. Darling was frightfully
50ashamed of himself, but he would not give in. In a horrid silence Mrs. Darling smelt the bowl. "O George," she said,
51"it's your medicine!" "It was only a joke," he roared, while she comforted her boys, and Wendy hugged Nana. "Much good,"
52he said bitterly, "my wearing myself to the bone trying to be funny in this house." And still Wendy hugged Nana. "That's
53right," he shouted. "Coddle her! Nobody coddles me. Oh dear no! I am only the breadwinner, why should I be coddled--why,
54why, why!" "George," Mrs. Darling entreated him, "not so loud; the servants will hear you." Somehow they had got into
55the way of calling Liza the servants. "Let them!" he answered recklessly. "Bring in the whole world. But I refuse to
56allow that dog to lord it in my nursery for an hour longer." The children wept, and Nana ran to him beseechingly, but he
57waved her back. He felt he was a strong man again. "In vain, in vain," he cried; "the proper place for you is the yard,
58and there you go to be tied up this instant." "George, George," Mrs. Darling whispered, "remember what I told you about
59that boy." Alas, he would not listen. He was determined to show who was master in that house, and when commands would
60not draw Nana from the kennel, he lured her out of it with honeyed words, and seizing her roughly, dragged her from the
61nursery. He was ashamed of himself, and yet he did it. It was all owing to his too affectionate nature, which craved for
62admiration. When he had tied her up in the back-yard, the wretched father went and sat in the passage, with his knuckles
63to his eyes. In the meantime Mrs. Darling had put the children to bed in unwonted silence and lit their night-lights.
64They could hear Nana barking, and John whimpered, "It is because he is chaining her up in the yard," but Wendy was
65wiser. "That is not Nana's unhappy bark," she said, little guessing what was about to happen; "that is her bark when she
66smells danger." Danger! "Are you sure, Wendy?" "Oh, yes." Mrs. Darling quivered and went to the window. It was securely
67fastened. She looked out, and the night was peppered with stars. They were crowding round the house, as if curious to
68see what was to take place there, but she did not notice this, nor that one or two of the smaller ones winked at her.
69Yet a nameless fear clutched at her heart and made her cry, "Oh, how I wish that I wasn't going to a party to-night!"
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