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"I always did adore babies," she went on; "and at home when I exclaim, 'What is sweeter than a baby?' the answer comes like a flash, 'Two of them.'"

The Doll Lady went about, helping the dolls in their care-taking.

"True it is, in all the world nothing is sweeter than these bits of humanity," she continued. "Peter Pan tells us when the first baby laughed for the first time, that his laugh broke into a million pieces, and went skipping all about: that was the beginning of fairies. Isn't that sweet? Only I shouldn't say 'his,' I should say 'its,' for 'his' sounds as though girl babies weren't included, and we know better. Girl babies are every bit as sweet, I am sure."