He went in a hurry in the end , because he had dreamt that his mother was crying , and he knew what was the great thing she cried for , and that a hug from her splendid Peter would quickly make her to smile . Oh ! he felt sure of it , and so eager was he to be nestling in her arms that this time he flew straight to the window , which was always to be open for him . -LSB- Illustration : Wallflower juice is good for reviving dancers who fall to the ground in a fit -RSB- But the window was closed , and there were iron bars on it , and peering inside he saw his mother sleeping peacefully with her arm round another little boy . Peter called , ` Mother ! mother ! ' but she heard him not ; in vain he beat his little limbs against the iron bars . He had to fly back , sobbing , to the Gardens , and he never saw his dear again . What a glorious boy he had meant to be to her ! Ah , Peter ! we who have made the great mistake , how differently we should all act at the second chance . 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 XXXXX , and always in a different part of the Gardens .
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