for instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event happened, that when they were in the wood they had met their dead father and had a game with him. it was in this casual way that wendy one morning made a disquieting revelation. some leaves of a tree had been found on the nursery floor, which certainly were not there when the children went to bed, and mrs. darling was puzzling over them when wendy said with a tolerant smile: