She was asleep . Look at the four of them , Wendy and Michael over there , John here , and Mrs. Darling by the fire . There should have been a fourth night-light . While she slept she had a dream . She dreamt that the Neverland had come too near and that a strange boy had broken through from it . He did not alarm her , for she thought she had seen him before in the faces of many women who have no children . Perhaps he is to be found in the faces of some mothers also . But in her dream he had rent the film that obscures the Neverland , and she saw Wendy and John and Michael peeping through the gap . The dream by itself would have been a trifle , but while she was dreaming the window of the nursery blew open , and a boy did drop on the floor . He was accompanied by a strange light , no bigger than your fist , which darted about the room like a living thing and I think it must have been this light that wakened Mrs. Darling . She started up with a cry , and saw the boy , and somehow she knew at once that he was Peter Pan . If you or I or Wendy had been there we should have seen that he was very like Mrs. Darling 's kiss . He was a lovely boy , clad in skeleton leaves and the juices that ooze out of trees but the most entrancing thing about him was that he had all his first teeth . When he saw she was a grown-up , he gnashed the little pearls at her . Chapter 2 THE SHADOW Mrs. Darling screamed , and , as if in answer to a bell , the door opened , and Nana entered , returned from her evening out . She growled and sprang at the boy , who leapt lightly through the window . Again Mrs. Darling screamed , this time in distress for him , for she thought he was killed , and she ran down into the street to look for his little body , but it was not there ; and she looked up , and in the black night she could see nothing but what she thought was a shooting star . She returned to the nursery , and found Nana with something in her mouth , which proved to be the boy 's shadow . As he leapt at the window Nana had closed it quickly , too late to catch him , but his shadow had not had time to get out ; slam went the window and snapped it off . You may be sure Mrs. Darling examined the shadow carefully , but it was quite the ordinary kind .
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