STARKEY (unmanned). Let us follow the captain’s orders.
(They undo the thongs and TIGER LILY slides between their legs into the lagoon, forgetting in her haste to utter her war-cry, but PETER utters it for her, so naturally that even the lost boys are deceived. It is at this moment that the voice of the true HOOK is heard.)
HOOK. Boat ahoy!
SMEE (relieved). It is the captain.
(HOOK is swimming, and they help him to scale the rock. He is in gloomy mood.)
STARKEY. Captain, is all well?
SMEE. He sighs.
STARKEY. He sighs again.
SMEE (counting). And yet a third time he sighs. (With foreboding) What’s up, Captain?
HOOK (who has perhaps found the large rich damp cake untouched). The game is up. Those boys have found a mother!
STARKEY. Oh evil day!
SMEE. What is a mother?
WENDY (horrified). He doesn’t know!
