`` Do you really think so , Peter ? '' `` Yes , I do . '' `` I think it 's perfectly sweet of you , '' she declared , `` and I 'll get up again , '' and she sat with him on the side of the bed . She also said she would give him a kiss if he liked , but Peter did not know what she meant , and he held out his hand expectantly . `` Surely you know what a kiss is ? '' she asked , aghast . `` I shall know when you give it to me , '' he replied stiffly , and not to hurt his feeling she gave him a thimble . `` Now , '' said he , `` shall I give you a kiss ? '' and she replied with a slight primness , `` If you please . '' She made herself rather cheap by inclining her face toward him , but he merely dropped an acorn button into her hand , so she slowly returned her face to where it had been before , and said nicely that she would wear his kiss on the chain around her neck . It was lucky that she did put it on that chain , for it was afterwards to save her life . When people in our set are introduced , it is customary for them to ask each other 's age , and so Wendy , who always liked to do the correct thing , asked Peter how old he was . It was not really a happy question to ask him ; it was like an examination paper that asks grammar , when what you want to be asked is Kings of England . `` I do n't know , '' he replied uneasily , `` but I am quite young . '' He really knew nothing about it , he had merely suspicions , but he said at a venture , `` Wendy , I ran away the day I was born . '' Wendy was quite surprised , but interested ; and she indicated in the charming drawing-room manner , by a touch on her night-gown , that he could sit nearer her . `` It was because I heard father and mother , '' he explained in a low voice , `` talking about what I was to be when I became a man . '' He was extraordinarily agitated now . `` I do n't want ever to be a man , '' he said with passion . `` I want always to be a little boy and to have fun .
So I XXXXX away to Kensington Gardens and lived a long long time among the fairies . ''
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