`` Who is Captain Hook ? '' he asked with interest when she spoke of the arch enemy . `` Do n't you remember , '' she asked , amazed , `` how you killed him and saved all our lives ? '' `` I forget them after I kill them , '' he replied carelessly . When she expressed a doubtful hope that Tinker Bell would be glad to see her he said , `` Who is Tinker Bell ? '' `` O Peter , '' she said , shocked ; but even when she explained he could not remember . `` There are such a lot of them , '' he said . `` I expect she is no more . '' I expect he was right , for fairies do n't live long , but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them . Wendy was pained too to find that the past year was but as yesterday to Peter ; it had seemed such a long year of waiting to her . But he was exactly as fascinating as ever , and they had a lovely spring cleaning in the little house on the tree tops . Next year he did not come for her . 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 XXXXX was no more to her than a little dust in the box in which she had kept her toys .
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