“It was dreadful the way all the three were looking at him, just as if they did not admire him.”

“Mr. Darling used to boast to Wendy that her mother not only loved him but respected him. He was one of those deep ones who know about stocks and shares. Of course no one really knows, but he quite seemed to know, and he often said stocks were up and shares were down in a way that would have made any woman respect him.”

“‎She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles.”

“They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate.”

“And so when Mrs. Darling went back to the night-nursery to see if her husband was asleep, all the beds were occupied. The children waited for her cry of joy, but it did not come. She saw them, but she did not believe they were there. You see, she saw them in their beds so often in her dreams that she thought this was just the dream hanging around her still.”

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

“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.”