Tootles rose. "Peter," he said quietly, "I will show her to
you," and when the others would still have hidden her he said,
"Back, twins, let Peter see."

So they all stood back, and let him see, and after he had
looked for a little time he did not know what to do next.

"She is dead," he said uncomfortably. "Perhaps she is
frightened at being dead."

He thought of hopping off in a comic sort of way till he was
out of sight of her, and then never going near the spot any more.
They would all have been glad to follow if he had done this.