She waited in a new frock because the old one simply would not meet ; but he never came . ` Perhaps he is ill , ' Michael said . ` You know he is never ill . ' Michael came close to her and whispered , with a shiver , ` Perhaps there is no such person , Wendy ! ' and then Wendy would have cried if Michael had not been crying . Peter came next spring cleaning ; and the strange thing was that he never knew he had missed a year . That was the last time the girl Wendy ever saw him . For a little longer she tried for his sake not to have growing pains ; and she felt she was untrue to him when she got a prize for general knowledge . 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 . Wendy was grown up . You need not be sorry for her . She was one of the kind that likes to grow up . In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than other girls . All the boys were grown up and done for by this time ; so it is scarcely worth while saying anything more about them . You may see the twins and Nibs and Curly any day going to an office , each carrying a little bag and an umbrella . Michael is an engine-driver . Slightly married a lady of title , and so he became a lord . You see that judge in a wig coming out at the iron door ? That used to be Tootles . The bearded man who does n't know any story to tell his children was once John .
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