This would spoil so completely the surprise to which Wendy and John and Michael are looking forward . They have been planning it out on the ship : mother 's rapture , father 's shout of joy , Nana 's leap through the air to embrace them first , when what they ought to be preparing for is a good hiding . How delicious to spoil it all by breaking the news in advance ; so that when they enter grandly Mrs. Darling may not even offer Wendy her mouth , and Mr. Darling may exclaim pettishly , ` Dash it all , here are those boys again . ' However , we should get no thanks even for this . We are beginning to know Mrs. Darling by this time , and may be sure that she would upbraid us for depriving the children of their little pleasure . ` But , my dear madam , it is ten days till Thursday week ; so that by telling you what 's what , we can save you ten days of unhappiness . ' ` Yes , but at what a cost ! By depriving the children of ten minutes of delight . ' ` Oh , if you look at it in that way . ' ` What other way is there in which to look at it ? ' You see , the woman had no proper spirit . I had meant to say extraordinarily nice things about her ; but I despise her , and not one of them will I say now . She does not really need to be told to have things ready , for they are ready . All the beds are aired , and she never leaves the house , and observe , the window is open . For all the use we are to her , we might go back to the ship . However , as we are here we may as well stay and look on . That is all we are , lookers-on . Nobody really wants us . So let us watch and say jaggy things , in the hope that some of them will hurt . The only change to be seen in the night-nursery is that between nine and six the kennel is no longer there .
When the children flew away , Mr. Darling felt in his bones that all the blame was his for having chained Nana up , and that from XXXXX to last she had been wiser than he .
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