The boys all gather around Wendy, and they realize she is not really a bird. Tootles is very sad to have killed a lady. Suddenly they hear crowing, which is Peter’s special noise. Peter Pan himself lands nearby. He is surprised to see the boys so quiet and sad, and he tells them he has brought them a mother. Tootles solemnly leads Peter to Wendy’s body. When Tootles takes responsibility for the death, Peter Pan almost stabs him with an arrow. But Wendy’s hand holds him back. She is alive: Peter’s button, which she wears as a necklace, stopped the arrow from hurting her too badly. When Peter learns that the accident was Tink’s doing, he tells her that he never wants to see her again; but right away he takes pity on her and reduces the length of her exile to a week. The boys decide to build a house around the very spot where Wendy lies, so as not to disturb her. They bring her nice things from their underground home and build a cabin of branches and leaves. A very sleepy John and Michael fly in, and they get to work too. Peter asks Slightly to get a doctor, and Slightly reappears in a moment wearing a doctor-like hat and pretends to cure Wendy. Peter speaks to him just as he would to a doctor, because to him there is no difference between reality and make-believe. The boys quickly finish Wendy’s house, and they make it just as she asks them to: it has red walls, a green roof, roses, and windows. Then they politely knock on the door. Wendy opens it, and they all introduce themselves. They beg her to be their mother, since they very much need “a nice motherly person.” Wendy says she is just that, and happily agrees. She tucks them in and reads them a bedtime story, and they happily fall asleep.