Everybody thought this was funny , except Felix . He would not speak to Peter for two days because of it . Felicity also got into trouble because of her dreams . One night she woke up , having just had a very exciting dream ; but she went to sleep again , and in the morning she could not remember the dream at all . Felicity determined she would never let another dream get away from her in such a fashion ; and the next time she wakened in the night -- having dreamed that she was dead and buried -- she promptly arose , lighted a candle , and proceeded to write the dream down then and there . While so employed she contrived to upset the candle and set fire to her nightgown -- a brand-new one , trimmed with any quantity of crocheted lace . A huge hole was burned in it , and when Aunt Janet discovered it she lifted up her voice with no uncertain sound . Felicity had never received a sharper scolding . But she took it very philosophically . She was used to her mother 's bitter tongue , and she was not unduly sensitive . `` Anyhow , I saved my dream , '' she said placidly . And that , of course , was all that really mattered . Grown people were so strangely oblivious to the truly important things of life . Material for new garments , of night or day , could be bought in any shop for a trifling sum and made up out of hand . But if a dream escape you , in what market-place the wide world over can you hope to regain it ? What coin of earthly minting will ever buy back for you that lost and lovely vision ? CHAPTER XXIII . SUCH STUFF AS DREAMS ARE MADE ON Peter took Dan and me aside one evening , as we were on our way to the orchard with our dream books , saying significantly that he wanted our advice . Accordingly , we went round to the spruce wood , where the girls would not see us to the rousing of their curiosity , and then Peter told us of his dilemma . `` Last night I dreamed I was in church , '' he said .
`` I thought it was full XXXXX people , and I walked up the aisle to your pew and set down , as unconcerned as a pig on ice .
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