`` Let us creep in , '' John suggested , `` and put our hands over her eyes . '' But Wendy , who saw that they must break the joyous news more gently , had a better plan . `` Let us all slip into our beds , and be there when she comes in , just as if we had never been away . '' And so when Mrs. Darling went back to the night-nursery to see if her husband was asleep , all the beds were occupied . The children waited for her cry of joy , but it did not come . She saw them , but she did not believe they were there . You see , she saw them in their beds so often in her dreams that she thought this was just the dream hanging around her still . She sat down in the chair by the fire , where in the old days she had nursed them . They could not understand this , and a cold fear fell upon all the three of them . `` Mother ! '' Wendy cried . `` That 's Wendy , '' she said , but still she was sure it was the dream . `` Mother ! '' `` That 's John , '' she said . `` Mother ! '' cried Michael . He knew her now . `` That 's Michael , '' she said , and she stretched out her arms for the three little selfish children they would never envelop again . Yes , they did , they went round Wendy and John and Michael , who had slipped out of bed and run to her . `` George , George ! ''
she XXXXX when she could speak ; and Mr. Darling woke to share her bliss , and Nana came rushing in .
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