`` Yes , '' she said , clutching them . `` Not to-night ? '' asked the lost boys bewildered . They knew in what they called their hearts that one can get on quite well without a mother , and that it is only the mothers who think you ca n't . `` At once , '' Wendy replied resolutely , for the horrible thought had come to her : `` Perhaps mother is in half mourning by this time . '' This dread made her forgetful of what must be Peter 's feelings , and she said to him rather sharply , `` Peter , will you make the necessary arrangements ? '' `` If you wish it , '' he replied , as coolly as if she had asked him to pass the nuts . Not so much as a sorry-to-lose-you between them ! If she did not mind the parting , he was going to show her , was Peter , that neither did he . But of course he cared very much ; and he was so full of wrath against grown-ups , who , as usual , were spoiling everything , that as soon as he got inside his tree he breathed intentionally quick short breaths at the rate of about five to a second . He did this because there is a saying in the Neverland that , every time you breathe , a grown-up dies ; and Peter was killing them off vindictively as fast as possible . Then having given the necessary instructions to the redskins he returned to the home , where an unworthy scene had been enacted in his absence . Panic-stricken at the thought of losing Wendy the lost boys had advanced upon her threateningly . `` It will be worse than before she came , '' they cried . `` We sha n't let her go . '' `` Let 's keep her prisoner . '' `` Ay , chain her up . '' In her extremity an instinct told her to which of them to turn . `` Tootles , '' she cried , `` I appeal to you . '' Was it not strange ?
She appealed to XXXXX , quite the silliest one .
Ay Neverland Panic-stricken Peter Tootles Wendy grown-ups redskins second sorry-to-lose-you