And of course they must see her light, and if they guess we are near it they are sure to let fly." "Wendy!" "John!" "Michael!" "Tell her to go away at once, Peter," the three cried simultaneously, but he refused.
"She thinks we have lost the way," he replied stiffly, "and she is rather frightened.

You don't think I would send her away all by herself when she is frightened!" For a moment the circle of light was broken, and something gave Peter a loving little pinch.
"Then tell her," Wendy begged, "to put out her light." "She can't put it out.

That is about the only thing fairies can't do.

It just goes out of itself when she falls asleep, same as the stars." "Then tell her to sleep at once," John almost ordered.
"She can't sleep except when she's sleepy.

It is the only other thing fairies can't do." "Seems to me," growled John, "these are the only two things worth doing." Here he got a pinch, but not a loving one.
"If only one of us had a pocket," Peter said, "we could carry her in it." However, they had set off in such a hurry that there was not a pocket between the four of them.
He had a happy idea.