Peter called , ` Mother ! mother ! ' but she heard him not ; in vain he beat his little limbs against the iron bars . He had to fly back , sobbing , to the Gardens , and he never saw his dear again . What a glorious boy he had meant to be to her ! Ah , Peter ! we who have made the great mistake , how differently we should all act at the second chance . But Solomon was right -- there is no second chance , not for most of us . When we reach the window it is Lock-out Time . The iron bars are up for life . -LSB- Illustration : Tailpiece to ` Lock-out Time ' -RSB- -LSB- Illustration : Headpiece to ` The Little House ' -RSB- V THE LITTLE HOUSE Everybody has heard of the Little House in the Kensington Gardens , which is the only house in the whole world that the fairies have built for humans . But no one has really seen it , except just three or four , and they have not only seen it but slept in it , and unless you sleep in it you never see it . This is because it is not there when you lie down , but it is there when you wake up and step outside . In a kind of way every one may see it , but what you see is not really it , but only the light in the windows . You see the light after Lock-out Time . David , for instance , saw it quite distinctly far away among the trees as we were going home from the pantomime , and Oliver Bailey saw it the night he stayed so late at the Temple , which is the name of his father 's office . Angela Clare , who loves to have a tooth extracted because then she is treated to tea in a shop , saw more than one light , she saw hundreds of them all together ; and this must have been the fairies building the house , for they build it every night , and always in a different part of the Gardens . She thought one of the lights was bigger than the others , though she was not quite sure , for they jumped about so , and it might have been another one that was bigger . But if it was the same one , it was Peter Pan 's light . Heaps of children have seen the light , so that is nothing .
But Maimie Mannering was the famous one for whom the house was first XXXXX .
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