` We could go back , ' Michael said . ` How could we ever find our way back without him ? ' ` Well , then , we could go on , ' said John . ` That is the awful thing , John . We should have to go on , for we do n't know how to stop . ' This was true ; Peter had forgotten to show them how to stop . John said that if the worst came to the worst , all they had to do was to go straight on , for the world was round , and so in time they must come back to their own window . ` And who is to get food for us , John ? ' ' I nipped a bit out of that eagle 's mouth pretty neatly , Wendy . ' ` After the twentieth try , ' Wendy reminded him . ` And even though we became good at picking up food , see how we bump against clouds and things if he is not near to give us a hand . ' Indeed they were constantly bumping . They could now fly strongly , though they still kicked far too much ; but if they saw a cloud in front of them , the more they tried to avoid it , the more certainly did they bump into it . If Nana had been with them , she would have had a bandage round Michael 's forehead by this time . Peter was not with them for the moment , and they felt rather lonely up there by themselves . He could go so much faster than they that he would suddenly shoot out of sight , to have some adventure in which they had no share . He would come down laughing over something fearfully funny he had been saying to a star , but he had already forgotten what it was , or he would come up with mermaid scales still sticking to him , and yet not be able to say for certain what had been happening . It was really rather irritating to children who had never seen a mermaid . ` And if he forgets them , so quickly , ' Wendy argued , ` how can we expect that he will go on remembering us ? ' Indeed , sometimes when he returned he did not remember them , at least not well .
XXXXX was sure of it .
John Michael Nana Peter Wendy eagle food moment sight twentieth