You won't forget me, Peter, will you, before spring-cleaning time comes? Of course Peter promised, and then he flew away. He took Mrs. Darling's kiss with him. The kiss that had been for no one else Peter took quite easily. Funny. But she seemd satisfied.

One girl is worth more use than 20 boys.

In time they could not even fly after their hats. Want of practice, they called it; but what it really meant was that they no longer believed.

And if he forgets them so quickly," Wendy argued, "how can we expect that he will go on remembering us?

She also said she would give him a kiss if he liked, but Peter did not know what she meant, and he held out his hand expectantly.

I'll teach you how to jump on the wind's back, and then away we go.

But the years came and went without bringing the careless boy; and 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.