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PETER PAN
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SLIGHTLY. Tut, tut, this has cured her.
PETER (leaping joyously). I am glad.
SLIGHTLY. I will call again in the evening. Give her beef tea out of a cup with a spout to it, tut, tut.
(The boys are running up with odd articles of furniture.)
PETER (with an already fading recollection of the Darling nursery). These are not good enough for Wendy. How I wish I knew the kind of house she would prefer!
FIRST TWIN. Peter, she is moving in her sleep.
TOOTLES (opening WENDY’S mouth and gazing down into the depths). Lovely!
PETER. Oh, Wendy, if you could sing the kind of house you would like to have.
(It is as if she had heard him.)
WENDY (without opening her eyes).
I wish I had a woodland house,
The littlest ever seen,
With funny little red walls
And roof of mossy green.
The littlest ever seen,
With funny little red walls
And roof of mossy green.
(in the time she sings this and two other verses, such is the urgency of PETER’S silent
