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1"I think it's perfectly sweet of you," she declared, "and I'll get up again," and she sat with him on the side of the
2bed. She also said she would give him a kiss if he liked, but Peter did not know what she meant, and he held out his
3hand expectantly. "Surely you know what a kiss is?" she asked, aghast. "I shall know when you give it to me," he replied
4stiffly, and not to hurt his feeling she gave him a thimble. "Now," said he, "shall I give you a kiss?" and she replied
5with a slight primness, "If you please." She made herself rather cheap by inclining her face toward him, but he merely
6dropped an acorn button into her hand, so she slowly returned her face to where it had been before, and said nicely that
7she would wear his kiss on the chain around her neck. It was lucky that she did put it on that chain, for it was
8afterwards to save her life. When people in our set are introduced, it is customary for them to ask each other's age,
9and so Wendy, who always liked to do the correct thing, asked Peter how old he was. It was not really a happy question
10to ask him; it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England. "I
11don't know," he replied uneasily, "but I am quite young." He really knew nothing about it, he had merely suspicions, but
12he said at a venture, "Wendy, I ran away the day I was born." Wendy was quite surprised, but interested; and she
13indicated in the charming drawing-room manner, by a touch on her night-gown, that he could sit nearer her. "It was
14because I heard father and mother," he explained in a low voice, "talking about what I was to be when I became a man."
15He was extraordinarily agitated now. "I don't want ever to be a man," he said with passion. "I want always to be a
16little boy and to have fun. So I ran away to Kensington Gardens and lived a long long time among the fairies." She gave
17him a look of the most intense admiration, and he thought it was because he had run away, but it was really because he
18knew fairies. Wendy had lived such a home life that to know fairies struck her as quite delightful. She poured out
19questions about them, to his surprise, for they were rather a nuisance to him, getting in his way and so on, and indeed
20he sometimes had to give them a hiding. Still, he liked them on the whole, and he told her about the beginning of
21fairies. "You see, Wendy, when the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and
22they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies." Tedious talk this, but being a stay-at-home she
23liked it. "And so," he went on good-naturedly, "there ought to be one fairy for every boy and girl." "Ought to be? Isn't
24there?" "No. You see children know such a lot now, they soon don't believe in fairies, and every time a child says, 'I
25don't believe in fairies,' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead." Really, he thought they had now talked
26enough about fairies, and it struck him that Tinker Bell was keeping very quiet. "I can't think where she has gone to,"
27he said, rising, and he called Tink by name. Wendy's heart went flutter with a sudden thrill. "Peter," she cried,
28clutching him, "you don't mean to tell me that there is a fairy in this room!" "She was here just now," he said a little
29impatiently. "You don't hear her, do you?" and they both listened. "The only sound I hear," said Wendy, "is like a
30tinkle of bells." "Well, that's Tink, that's the fairy language. I think I hear her too." The sound came from the chest
31of drawers, and Peter made a merry face. No one could ever look quite so merry as Peter, and the loveliest of gurgles
32was his laugh. He had his first laugh still. "Wendy," he whispered gleefully, "I do believe I shut her up in the
33drawer!" He let poor Tink out of the drawer, and she flew about the nursery screaming with fury. "You shouldn't say such
34things," Peter retorted. "Of course I'm very sorry, but how could I know you were in the drawer?" Wendy was not
35listening to him. "O Peter," she cried, "if she would only stand still and let me see her!" "They hardly ever stand
36still," he said, but for one moment Wendy saw the romantic figure come to rest on the cuckoo clock. "O the lovely!" she
37cried, though Tink's face was still distorted with passion. "Tink," said Peter amiably, "this lady says she wishes you
38were her fairy." Tinker Bell answered insolently. "What does she say, Peter?" He had to translate. "She is not very
39polite. She says you are a great ugly girl, and that she is my fairy." He tried to argue with Tink. "You know you can't
40be my fairy, Tink, because I am an gentleman and you are a lady." To this Tink replied in these words, "You silly ass,"
41and disappeared into the bathroom. "She is quite a common fairy," Peter explained apologetically, "she is called Tinker
42Bell because she mends the pots and kettles." They were together in the armchair by this time, and Wendy plied him with
43more questions. "If you don't live in Kensington Gardens now--" "Sometimes I do still." "But where do you live mostly
44now?" "With the lost boys." "Who are they?" "They are the children who fall out of their perambulators when the nurse is
45looking the other way. If they are not claimed in seven days they are sent far away to the Neverland to defray expenses.
46I'm captain." "What fun it must be!" "Yes," said cunning Peter, "but we are rather lonely. You see we have no female
47companionship." "Are none of the others girls?" "Oh, no; girls, you know, are much too clever to fall out of their
48prams." This flattered Wendy immensely. "I think," she said, "it is perfectly lovely the way you talk about girls; John
49there just despises us." For reply Peter rose and kicked John out of bed, blankets and all; one kick. This seemed to
50Wendy rather forward for a first meeting, and she told him with spirit that he was not captain in her house. However,
51John continued to sleep so placidly on the floor that she allowed him to remain there. "And I know you meant to be
52kind," she said, relenting, "so you may give me a kiss." For the moment she had forgotten his ignorance about kisses. "I
53thought you would want it back," he said a little bitterly, and offered to return her the thimble. "Oh dear," said the
54nice Wendy, "I don't mean a kiss, I mean a thimble." "What's that?" "It's like this." She kissed him. "Funny!" said
55Peter gravely. "Now shall I give you a thimble?" "If you wish to," said Wendy, keeping her head erect this time. Peter
56thimbled her, and almost immediately she screeched. "What is it, Wendy?" "It was exactly as if someone were pulling my
57hair." "That must have been Tink. I never knew her so naughty before." And indeed Tink was darting about again, using
58offensive language. "She says she will do that to you, Wendy, every time I give you a thimble." "But why?" "Why, Tink?"
59Again Tink replied, "You silly ass." Peter could not understand why, but Wendy understood, and she was just slightly
60disappointed when he admitted that he came to the nursery window not to see her but to listen to stories. "You see, I
61don't know any stories. None of the lost boys knows any stories." "How perfectly awful," Wendy said. "Do you know,"
62Peter asked "why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories. O Wendy, your mother was telling
63you such a lovely story." "Which story was it?" "About the prince who couldn't find the lady who wore the glass
64slipper." "Peter," said Wendy excitedly, "that was Cinderella, and he found her, and they lived happily ever after."
65Peter was so glad that he rose from the floor, where they had been sitting, and hurried to the window. "Where are you
66going?" she cried with misgiving. "To tell the other boys." "Don't go Peter," she entreated, "I know such lots of
67stories." Those were her precise words, so there can be no denying that it was she who first tempted him. He came back,
68and there was a greedy look in his eyes now which ought to have alarmed her, but did not.
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