` If only I had not poured my medicine into Nana 's bowl , ' said Mr. Darling . ` If only I had pretended to like the medicine , ' was what Nana 's wet eyes said . ` My liking for parties , George . ' ` My fatal gift of humour , dearest . ' ` My touchiness about trifles , dear master and mistress . ' Then one or more of them would break down altogether ; Nana at the thought , ` It 's true , it 's true , they ought not to have had a dog for a nurse . ' Many a time it was Mr. Darling who put the handkerchief to Nana 's eyes . ` That fiend ! ' Mr. Darling would cry , and Nana 's bark was the echo of it , but Mrs. Darling never upbraided Peter ; there was something in the right-hand corner of her mouth that wanted her not to call Peter names . They would sit there in the empty nursery , recalling fondly every smallest detail of that dreadful evening . It had begun so uneventfully , so precisely like a hundred other evenings , with Nana putting on the water for Michael 's bath and carrying him to it on her back . ' I wo n't go to bed , ' he had shouted , like one who still believed that he had the last word on the subject , ' I wo n't , I wo n't . Nana , it is n't six o'clock yet . Oh dear , oh dear , I sha n't love you any more , Nana . I tell you I wo n't be bathed , I wo n't , I wo n't ! ' Then Mrs. Darling had come in , wearing her white evening-gown . She had dressed early because Wendy so loved to see her in her evening-gown , with the necklace George had given her . She was wearing Wendy 's bracelet on her arm ; she had asked for the loan of it . Wendy so loved to lend her bracelet to her mother . She had found her two older children playing at being herself and father on the occasion of Wendy 's birth , and John was saying : ' I am happy to inform you , Mrs. Darling , that you are now a mother , ' in just such a tone as Mr. Darling himself may have used on the real occasion .
XXXXX had danced with joy , just as the real Mrs. Darling must have done .
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