But Maimie was sobbing painfully . ` If I should be too late , ' she said in agony , ' O Peter , if she has got another one already ! ' Again he sprang ashore as if she had called him back . ' I shall come and look for you to-night , ' he said , squeezing close , ` but if you hurry away I think you will be in time . ' Then he pressed a last thimble on her sweet little mouth , and covered his face with his hands so that he might not see her go . ` Dear Peter ! ' she cried . ` Dear Maimie ! ' cried the tragic boy . She leapt into his arms , so that it was a sort of fairy wedding , and then she hurried away . Oh , how she hastened to the gates ! Peter , you may be sure , was back in the Gardens that night as soon as Lock-out sounded , but he found no Maimie , and so he knew she had been in time . For long he hoped that some night she would come back to him ; often he thought he saw her waiting for him by the shore of the Serpentine as his bark drew to land , but Maimie never went back . She wanted to , but she was afraid that if she saw her dear Betwixt-and-Between again she would linger with him too long , and besides the ayah now kept a sharp eye on her . But she often talked lovingly of Peter , and she knitted a kettle-holder for him , and one day when she was wondering what Easter present he would like , her mother made a suggestion . -LSB- Illustration : If the bad ones among the fairies happen to be out -LRB- missing from book -RRB- -RSB- ` Nothing , ' she said thoughtfully , ` would be so useful to him as a goat . ' ` He could ride on it , ' cried Maimie , ` and play on his pipe at the same time . ' ` Then , ' her mother asked , ` wo n't you give him your goat , the one you frighten Tony with at night ? ' ` But it is n't a real goat , ' Maimie said . ` It seems very real to Tony , ' replied her mother .
` It XXXXX frightfully real to me too , ' Maimie admitted , ` but how could I give it to Peter ? '
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