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] . Build a house?

. For the Wendy.

(feeling that there must be some mistake here). For Wendy? Why, she is only a girl.

. That is why we are her servants.

(dazed). Are you Wendy’s servants?

. Yes, and you also. Away with them. (In another moment they are woodsmen hacking at trees, with as overseer.) Slightly, fetch a doctor. ( reels and goes. He returns professionally in hat.) Please, sir, are you a doctor?

(trembling in his desire to give satisfaction). Yes, my little man.

. Please, sir, a lady lies very ill.

(taking care not to fall over her). Tut, tut, where does she lie?

. In yonder glade. (It is a variation of a game they play.)

. I will put a glass thing in her mouth. (He inserts an imaginary thermometer in mouth and gives it a moment to record its verdict. He shakes it and then consults it.)

(anxiously). How is she?