I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

Thus sharply did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true.

We should be slower to think that the man at his worst is the real man, and certain that the better we are ourselves the less likely is he to be at his worst in our company. Every time he talks away his own character before us he is signifying contempt for ours.

astonishing splashes of colour

But where do you live mostly now?" With the lost boys." Who are they?" They are the children who fall out of their perambulators when the nurse is looking the other way. If they are not claimed in seven days they are sent far away to the Neverland to defray expanses. I'm captain." What fun it must be!" Yes," said cunning Peter, "but we are rather lonely. You see we have no female companionship." Are none of the others girls?" Oh no; girls, you know, are much too clever to fall out of their prams.

Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!

He was never more sinister than when he was most polite.