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Peter Pan (part II) J.M. Barrie

"It has come off?"

She was already sure that he must be Peter, but it did seem a comparatively short name.

"Is that all?"

"Yes," he said rather sharply. He felt for the first time that it was a shortish name.

"I'm so sorry,"said Wendy Moira Angela.

"It doesn't matter," Peter gulped.

She asked where he lived.

"Second star to the right," said Peter, "and then straight on till morning."

"What a funny address!"

Peter had a sinking feeling. For the first time he felt that perhaps it was a funny address.

"No, it isn't,"he said.

"I mean," Wendy said nicely, remembering that she was hostess, "is that what they put on the letters?"

He wished she had not mentioned letters.

"Don't get any letters,"he said proudly.

"But your mother gets letters?"

"Don't have a mother,"he said. Not only had he no mother, but he had not the slightest desire to have one. He thought them very over-rated persons.Wendy, however, felt at once that she was in the presence of a tragedy.

"O Peter, no wonder you were crying,"she said, and got out of bed and ran to him.

"I wasn't crying about mothers,"he said angrily.

"I was crying because I can't get my shadow to stick on. Besides, I wasn't crying."

"Yes."

Then Wendy saw the shadow on the floor, looking so messy, and she was sorry for Peter."How awful!"she said, but she could not help smiling when she saw that he had been trying to stick it on with soap. How exactly like a boy!

Fortunately she knew at once what to do. "It will sew it on".

"What's sew?" he asked.

"You're so ignorant."

"No, I'm not."

But she was exulting in his ignorance. "I will sew it on for you, my little man," she said, though he was as tal as herself, and she got out her sewing bag, and sewed the shadow on to Peter's foot.

"It might hurt a little,"she warned him.

"Oh, I won't cry,"said Peter, who was already of the opinion that he had never cried in his life. And he clenched his teeth and did not cry, and soon his shadow was behaving properly, though still a little creased.

"PerhapsI should have ironed it,"Wendy said thoughtfully, but Peter, boylike, was indifferent to appearances, and he was now jumping about happily.He had already forgotten that he owed his happiness to Wendy. He thought he had attached the shadow himself."How cleverI am!"he said,"oh, the cleverness ofme!"

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