`` Long ago , '' he said , `` I thought like you that my mother would always keep the window open for me , so I stayed away for moons and moons and moons , and then flew back ; but the window was barred , for mother had forgotten all about me , and there was another little boy sleeping in my bed . '' I am not sure that this was true , but Peter thought it was true ; and it scared them . `` Are you sure mothers are like that ? '' `` Yes . '' So this was the truth about mothers . The toads ! Still it is best to be careful ; and no one knows so quickly as a child when he should give in . `` Wendy , let us -LSB- let 's -RSB- go home , '' cried John and Michael together . `` Yes , '' she said , clutching them . `` Not to-night ? '' asked the lost boys bewildered . They knew in what they called their hearts that one can get on quite well without a mother , and that it is only the mothers who think you ca n't . `` At once , '' Wendy replied resolutely , for the horrible thought had come to her : `` Perhaps mother is in half mourning by this time . '' This dread made her forgetful of what must be Peter 's feelings , and she said to him rather sharply , `` Peter , will you make the necessary arrangements ? '' `` If you wish it , '' he replied , as coolly as if she had asked him to pass the nuts . Not 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 , that neither did he . But of course he cared very much ; and he was so full of wrath against grown-ups , who , as usual , were spoiling everything , that as soon as he got inside his tree he breathed intentionally quick short breaths at the rate of about five to a second . He did this because there is a saying in the Neverland that , every time you breathe , a grown-up dies ; and Peter was killing them off vindictively as fast as possible . Then having given the necessary instructions to the redskins he returned to the home , where an unworthy scene had been enacted in his absence .
Panic-stricken at the thought of losing Wendy the lost XXXXX had advanced upon her threateningly .
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