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72 and who should come out but ! ''She has evidently been tidying a little. She is quite surprised to find that she has nine children.'')

(genteelly). Where am I?

. Wendy lady, for you we built this house.

. Oh, say you are pleased.

(stroking the pretty thing). Lovely, darling house!

. And we are your children.

(affecting surprise). Oh?

(kneeling, with outstretched arms). Wendy lady, be our mother! (Now that they know it is pretend they acclaim her greedily.)

(not to make herself too cheap). Ought I? Of course it is frightfully fascinating; but you see I am only a little girl; I have no real experience.

. That doesn’t matter. What we need is just a nice motherly person.

. Oh dear, I feel that is just exactly what I am.

. It is, it is, we saw it at once.

. Very well then, I will do my best.