But Solomon was right -- there is no second chance , not for most of us . When we reach the window it is Lock-out Time . The iron bars are up for life . -LSB- Illustration : Tailpiece to ` Lock-out Time ' -RSB- -LSB- Illustration : Headpiece to ` The Little House ' -RSB- V THE LITTLE HOUSE Everybody has heard of the Little House in the Kensington Gardens , which is the only house in the whole world that the fairies have built for humans . But no one has really seen it , except just three or four , and they have not only seen it but slept in it , and unless you sleep in it you never see it . This is because it is not there when you lie down , but it is there when you wake up and step outside . In a kind of way every one may see it , but what you see is not really it , but only the light in the windows . You see the light after Lock-out Time . David , for instance , saw it quite distinctly far away among the trees as we were going home from the pantomime , and Oliver Bailey saw it the night he stayed so late at the Temple , which is the name of his father 's office . Angela Clare , who loves to have a tooth extracted because then she is treated to tea in a shop , saw more than one light , she saw hundreds of them all together ; and this must have been the fairies building the house , for they build it every night , and always in a different part of the Gardens . She thought one of the lights was bigger than the others , though she was not quite sure , for they jumped about so , and it might have been another one that was bigger . But if it was the same one , it was Peter Pan 's light . Heaps of children have seen the light , so that is nothing . But Maimie Mannering was the famous one for whom the house was first built . Maimie was always rather a strange girl , and it was at night that she was strange . She was four years of age , and in the daytime she was the ordinary kind . She was pleased when her brother Tony , who was a magnificent fellow of six , took notice of her , and she looked up to him in the right way , and tried in vain to imitate him , and was flattered rather than annoyed when he shoved her about . Also , when she was batting , she would pause though the ball was in the air to point out to you that she was wearing new shoes . She was quite the ordinary kind in the daytime . -LSB- Illustration : Peter Pan is the fairies ' orchestra -RSB- But as the shades of night fell , Tony , the swaggerer , lost his contempt for Maimie and eyed her fearfully ; and no wonder , for with dark there came into her face a look that I can describe only as a leary look .
It was also a serene look that contrasted grandly with XXXXX 's uneasy glances .
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