Now cold was another word Peter had forgotten , so he answered , ' I think not , but I may be wrong : you see I am rather ignorant . I am not exactly a boy ; Solomon says I am a Betwixt-and-Between . ' ` So that is what it is called , ' said Maimie thoughtfully . ` That 's not my name , ' he explained , ` my name is Peter Pan . ' ` Yes , of course , ' she said , ' I know , everybody knows . ' You ca n't think how pleased Peter was to learn that all the people outside the gates knew about him . He begged Maimie to tell him what they knew and what they said , and she did so . They were sitting by this time on a fallen tree ; Peter had cleared off the snow for Maimie , but he sat on a snowy bit himself . ` Squeeze closer , ' Maimie said . ` What is that ? ' he asked , and she showed him , and then he did it . They talked together and he found that people knew a great deal about him , but not everything , not that he had gone back to his mother and been barred out , for instance , and he said nothing of this to Maimie , for it still humiliated him . ` Do they know that I play games exactly like real boys ? ' he asked very proudly . ' O Maimie , please tell them ! ' But when he revealed how he played , by sailing his hoop on the Round Pond , and so on , she was simply horrified . ` All your ways of playing , ' she said with her big eyes on him , ` are quite , quite wrong , and not in the least like how boys play . ' Poor Peter uttered a little moan at this , and he cried for the first time for I know not how long . Maimie was extremely sorry for him , and lent him her handkerchief , but he did n't know in the least what to do with it , so she showed him , that is to say , she wiped her eyes , and then gave it back to him , saying , ` Now you do it , ' but instead of wiping his own eyes he wiped hers , and she thought it best to pretend that this was what she had meant . -LSB- Illustration : Looking very undancey indeed -RSB- She said out of pity for him , ' I shall give you a kiss if you like , ' but though he once knew , he had long forgotten what kisses are , and he replied , ` Thank you , ' and held out his hand , thinking she had offered to put something into it .
This was a great shock to her , but she felt she could not explain without shaming him , so with charming delicacy she gave Peter a thimble which happened to be in her pocket , and pretended that it was a XXXXX .
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