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 Peter was no more to her than a little dust in the box in which she had kept her toys .
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