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1"'See, dear brothers,' says Wendy pointing upwards, 'there is the window still standing open. Ah, now we are rewarded
2for our sublime faith in a mother's love.' So up they flew to their mummy and daddy, and pen cannot describe the happy
3scene, over which we draw a veil." That was the story, and they were as pleased with it as the fair narrator herself.
4Everything just as it should be, you see. Off we skip like the most heartless things in the world, which is what
5children are, but so attractive; and we have an entirely selfish time, and then when we have need of special attention
6we nobly return for it, confident that we shall be rewarded instead of smacked. So great indeed was their faith in a
7mother's love that they felt they could afford to be callous for a bit longer. But there was one there who knew better,
8and when Wendy finished he uttered a hollow groan. "What is it, Peter?" she cried, running to him, thinking he was ill.
9She felt him solicitously, lower down than his chest. "Where is it, Peter?" "It isn't that kind of pain," Peter replied
10darkly. "Then what kind is it?" "Wendy, you are wrong about mothers." They all gathered round him in affright, so
11alarming was his agitation; and with a fine candour he told them what he had hitherto concealed. "Long ago," he said, "I
12thought like you that my mother would always keep the window open for me, so I stayed away for moons and moons and
13moons, and then flew back; but the window was barred, for mother had forgotten all about me, and there was another
14little boy sleeping in my bed." I am not sure that this was true, but Peter thought it was true; and it scared them.
15"Are you sure mothers are like that?" "Yes." So this was the truth about mothers. The toads! Still it is best to be
16careful; and no one knows so quickly as a child when he should give in. "Wendy, let us go home," cried John and Michael
17together. "Yes," she said, clutching them. "Not to-night?" asked the lost boys bewildered. They knew in what they called
18their hearts that one can get on quite well without a mother, and that it is only the mothers who think you can't. "At
19once," Wendy replied resolutely, for the horrible thought had come to her: "Perhaps mother is in half mourning by this
20time." This dread made her forgetful of what must be Peter's feelings, and she said to him rather sharply, "Peter, will
21you make the necessary arrangements?" "If you wish it," he replied, as coolly as if she had asked him to pass the nuts.
22Not so much as a sorry-to-lose-you between them! If she did not mind the parting, he was going to show her, was Peter,
23that neither did he. But of course he cared very much; and he was so full of wrath against grown-ups, who, as usual,
24were spoiling everything, that as soon as he got inside his tree he breathed intentionally quick short breaths at the
25rate of about five to a second. He did this because there is a saying in the Neverland that, every time you breathe, a
26grown-up dies; and Peter was killing them off vindictively as fast as possible. Then having given the necessary
27instructions to the redskins he returned to the home, where an unworthy scene had been enacted in his absence.
28Panic-stricken at the thought of losing Wendy the lost boys had advanced upon her threateningly. "It will be worse than
29before she came," they cried. "We shan't let her go." "Let's keep her prisoner." "Ay, chain her up." In her extremity an
30instinct told her to which of them to turn. "Tootles," she cried, "I appeal to you." Was it not strange? She appealed to
31Tootles, quite the silliest one. Grandly, however, did Tootles respond. For that one moment he dropped his silliness and
32spoke with dignity. "I am just Tootles," he said, "and nobody minds me. But the first who does not behave to Wendy like
33an English gentleman I will blood him severely." He drew back his hanger; and for that instant his sun was at noon. The
34others held back uneasily. Then Peter returned, and they saw at once that they would get no support from him. He would
35keep no girl in the Neverland against her will. "Wendy," he said, striding up and down, "I have asked the redskins to
36guide you through the wood, as flying tires you so." "Thank you, Peter." "Then," he continued, in the short sharp voice
37of one accustomed to be obeyed, "Tinker Bell will take you across the sea. Wake her, Nibs." Nibs had to knock twice
38before he got an answer, though Tink had really been sitting up in bed listening for some time. "Who are you? How dare
39you? Go away," she cried. "You are to get up, Tink," Nibs called, "and take Wendy on a journey." Of course Tink had been
40delighted to hear that Wendy was going; but she was jolly well determined not to be her courier, and she said so in
41still more offensive language. Then she pretended to be asleep again. "She says she won't!" Nibs exclaimed, aghast at
42such insubordination, whereupon Peter went sternly toward the young lady's chamber. "Tink," he rapped out, "if you don't
43get up and dress at once I will open the curtains, and then we shall all see you in your negligée." This made her leap
44to the floor. "Who said I wasn't getting up?" she cried. In the meantime the boys were gazing very forlornly at Wendy,
45now equipped with John and Michael for the journey. By this time they were dejected, not merely because they were about
46to lose her, but also because they felt that she was going off to something nice to which they had not been invited.
47Novelty was beckoning to them as usual. Crediting them with a nobler feeling Wendy melted. "Dear ones," she said, "if
48you will all come with me I feel almost sure I can get my father and mother to adopt you." The invitation was meant
49specially for Peter, but each of the boys was thinking exclusively of himself, and at once they jumped with joy. "But
50won't they think us rather a handful?" Nibs asked in the middle of his jump. "Oh no," said Wendy, rapidly thinking it
51out, "it will only mean having a few beds in the drawing-room; they can be hidden behind the screens on first
52Thursdays." "Peter, can we go?" they all cried imploringly. They took it for granted that if they went he would go also,
53but really they scarcely cared. Thus children are ever ready, when novelty knocks, to desert their dearest ones. "All
54right," Peter replied with a bitter smile, and immediately they rushed to get their things. "And now, Peter," Wendy
55said, thinking she had put everything right, "I am going to give you your medicine before you go." She loved to give
56them medicine, and undoubtedly gave them too much. Of course it was only water, but it was out of a bottle, and she
57always shook the bottle and counted the drops, which gave it a certain medicinal quality. On this occasion, however, she
58did not give Peter his draught, for just as she had prepared it, she saw a look on his face that made her heart sink.
59"Get your things, Peter," she cried, shaking. "No," he answered, pretending indifference, "I am not going with you,
60Wendy." "Yes, Peter." "No." To show that her departure would leave him unmoved, he skipped up and down the room, playing
61gaily on his heartless pipes. She had to run about after him, though it was rather undignified. "To find your mother,"
62she coaxed. Now, if Peter had ever quite had a mother, he no longer missed her. He could do very well without one. He
63had thought them out, and remembered only their bad points. "No, no," he told Wendy decisively; "perhaps she would say I
64was old, and I just want always to be a little boy and to have fun." "But, Peter--" "No." And so the others had to be
65told. "Peter isn't coming." Peter not coming! They gazed blankly at him, their sticks over their backs, and on each
66stick a bundle. Their first thought was that if Peter was not going he had probably changed his mind about letting them
67go. But he was far too proud for that. "If you find your mothers," he said darkly, "I hope you will like them." The
68awful cynicism of this made an uncomfortable impression, and most of them began to look rather doubtful. After all,
69their faces said, were they not noodles to want to go?
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