Mary's Visionary Comfort through Peter Pan

“At home again in their room, she came to him with a tearful gladness and unburdened her tired soul. 'Wasn't she wonderful, Bert! And her voice! Couldn’t you hear little Bert's voice and catch his happy laugh? It was as though he came to me to comfort me—knew my black thoughts and wanted to teach me the truth. I had thought his little life so cruelly wrecked. He was such a little tad, Bert. And he had seemed so eager for the years to come. I felt that he had been brutally robbed, and I wouldn't accept his fate. I’m such a spoilt child, Bert. But now I know the truth. Short as his little life was, it was full, complete. That was what Peter taught me—the utter completeness of it. My life will be no more perfect a whole if I live to be a hundred.' — The Young Woman's Journal 23:9”