What are you to do , Nibs ? '' `` What my mother hopes . What are you to do , Twin ? '' `` What my mother hopes . John , what are -- '' But Hook had found his voice again . `` Tie her up ! '' he shouted . It was Smee who tied her to the mast . `` See here , honey , '' he whispered , `` I 'll save you if you promise to be my mother . '' But not even for Smee would she make such a promise . `` I would almost rather have no children at all , '' she said disdainfully -LSB- scornfully -RSB- . It is sad to know that not a boy was looking at her as Smee tied her to the mast ; the eyes of all were on the plank : that last little walk they were about to take . They were no longer able to hope that they would walk it manfully , for the capacity to think had gone from them ; they could stare and shiver only . Hook smiled on them with his teeth closed , and took a step toward Wendy . His intention was to turn her face so that she should see the boys walking the plank one by one . But he never reached her , he never heard the cry of anguish he hoped to wring from her . He heard something else instead . It was the terrible tick-tick of the crocodile . They all heard it -- pirates , boys , Wendy ; and immediately every head was blown in one direction ; not to the water whence the sound proceeded , but toward Hook . All knew that what was about to happen concerned him alone , and that from being actors they were suddenly become spectators .
Very frightful was it to XXXXX the change that came over him .
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