BEVERLEY:--"I don't quite understand where the little girl got her
gun and ammunition."
PETER, SUSPECTING THAT HE IS BEING MADE FUN OF:--"If you could
write a better story, why didn't you? I give you the chance."
THE STORY GIRL, WITH A PRETERNATURALLY SOLEMN FACE:--"You
shouldn't criticize Peter's story like that. It's a fairy tale,
you know, and anything can happen in a fairy tale."
FELICITY:--"There isn't a word about fairies in it!"
CECILY:--"Besides, fairy tales always end nicely and this
doesn't."
PETER, SULKILY:--"I wanted to punish her for running away from
home."
DAN:--"Well, I guess you did it all right."
CECILY:--"Oh, well, it was very interesting, and that is all that
is really necessary in a story." )
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