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64 (They make a paling of themselves in front of as skims round the tree-tops and reaches earth.)

. Greeting, boys! (Their silence chafes him.) I am back; why do you not cheer? Great news, boys, I have brought at last a mother for us all.

(vaguely). Ay, ay.

. She flew this way; have you not seen her?

(as evidently thinks her important). Oh mournful day!

(making a break in the paling). Peter, I will show her to you.

(closing the gap). No, no.

(majestically). Stand back all, and let Peter see.

(The paling dissolves, and sees prone on the ground.)

. Wendy, with an arrow in her heart! (He plucks it out.) Wendy is dead. (He is not so much pained as puzzled.)

. I thought it was only flowers that die.

. Perhaps she is frightened at being