Hello everyone and I hope you are doing well. We are going to continue reading from

Peter Pan by J.M. Berry and we are Chapter 2, and it's entitled The Shadow.

Mrs. Starling screamed as if it had an answer to a bell, the door opened, and Nana entered, returned

from her evening out.

She growled in spring at the boy who leapt lightly through the window.

Again Mrs. Darling screamed this time in distress for him, for she thought he was killed, and she ran down into the street to look for his little

body but it was not there and she looked up and in the black night she could see nothing

but what she thought was a shooting star. She returned to the nursery and found

Nana with something in her mouth which proved to be the boy's shadow. As he leapt at the

window, Nana had closed it quickly, too late to catch him. But his shadow had not time to get out.

Slam went the window and snapped it off. You may be sure Mrs. Darling examined the shadow carefully, but it was quite the ordinary kind.

Nana had no doubt of what the best thing to do with this shadow.

She hung it out at the window, meaning he is sure to come back for it.

Let us put it where he can get it easily without disturbing the children.

But unfortunately, Mrs. Darling could not leave it hanging out at the window.

It looked so like the washing and lowered the whole tone of the house.

She thought of showing it to Mr. Darling, but he was todding up winter great coats for John and Michael,

with a wet towel around his head to keep his brain clear, and it seemed a shame to trouble him.

Besides, she knew exactly what he would say.

It all comes of having a dog for a nurse.

She decided to roll the shadow up and put it away carefully in a drawer until a fitting opportunity came for telling her husband.

Ah, me! The opportunity came a week later on that never to be forgotten Friday. Of course it was a Friday. I ought

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