Peter Pan

by J.M. Barrie

There never was a simpler happier family until the coming of Peter Pan.

Wendy's began to be scrawled all over with him.

He came back, and there was a greedy look in his eyes now which ought to have alarmed her, but did not.

But with the coming of Peter, who hates lethargy, they are under way again:

It was only in Peter's absence that they could speak of mothers,

"I am so afraid of Peter."

"To die will be an awfully big adventure."

He had had ecstasies innumerable that other children can never know; but he was looking through the window at the one joy from which he must be for ever barred.

"You won't forget me, Peter, will you, before spring cleaning time comes?"

when they met again Wendy was a married woman, and Peter was no more to her than a little dust in the box in which she had kept her toys.

Wendy was married in white with a pink sash. It is strange to think that Peter did not alight in the church and forbid the banns