What a lesson! The nest must have fallen into the water, but would the mother desert her eggs?
No." There was a break in his voice, as if for a moment he recalled innocent days when--but he brushed away this weakness with his hook.
Smee, much impressed, gazed at the bird as the nest was borne past, but the more suspicious Starkey said, "If she is a mother, perhaps she is hanging about here to help Peter." Hook winced.

"Ay," he said, "that is the fear that haunts me." He was roused from this dejection by Smee's eager voice.
"Captain," said Smee, "could we not kidnap these boys' mother and make her our mother ?" "It is a princely scheme," cried Hook, and at once it took practical shape in his great brain.

"We will seize the children and carry them to the boat: the boys we will make walk the plank, and Wendy shall be our mother." Again Wendy forgot herself.
"Never!" she cried, and bobbed.
"What was that ?" But they could see nothing.

They thought it must have been a leaf in the wind.

"Do you agree, my bullies ?" asked Hook.
"There is my hand on it," they both said.
"And there is my hook.