It was then that Mrs. Darling began playing again . `` It 's mother ! '' cried Wendy , peeping . `` So it is ! '' said John . `` Then are you not really our mother , Wendy ? '' asked Michael , who was surely sleepy . `` Oh dear ! '' exclaimed Wendy , with her first real twinge of remorse -LSB- for having gone -RSB- , `` it was quite time we came back . '' `` Let us creep in , '' John suggested , `` and put our hands over her eyes . '' But Wendy , who saw that they must break the joyous news more gently , had a better plan . `` Let us all slip into our beds , and be there when she comes in , just as if we had never been away . '' And so when Mrs. Darling went back to the night-nursery to see if her husband was asleep , all the beds were occupied . The children waited for her cry of joy , but it did not come . She saw them , but she did not believe they were there . You see , she saw them in their beds so often in her dreams that she thought this was just the dream hanging around her still . She sat down in the chair by the fire , where in the old days she had nursed them . They could not understand this , and a cold fear fell upon all the three of them . `` Mother ! '' Wendy cried .
`` That 's XXXXX , '' she said , but still she was sure it was the dream .
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