Wendy rushed to the window.
“No, no,” she cried.
“It is just for spring cleaning time,” Jane said, “he wants me always to do his
spring cleaning.”
“If only I could go with you,” Wendy sighed.
“You see you can't fly,” said Jane.
Of course in the end Wendy let them fly away together. Our last glimpse of
her shows her at the window, watching them receding into the sky until they
were as small as stars.
As you look at Wendy, you may see her hair becoming white, and her figure
little again, for all this happened long ago. Jane is now a common grown-up,
with a daughter called Margaret; and every spring cleaning time, except when he
forgets, Peter comes for Margaret and takes her to the Neverland, where she tells
him stories about himself, to which he listens eagerly. When Margaret grows up
she will have a daughter, who is to be Peter's mother in turn; and thus it will go
on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
THE END
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