IT was one of the Llewelyn-Davies children who in very early days unconsciously provided Barrie with the 'copy' for the lines afterwards spoken in Peter Pan by the little boy in his night-shirt.
'You'll be sick tomorrow, Jack, if you eat any more chocolates,' Sylvia remarked severely to her small son during a picnic at which the dramatist was one of the guests.
'I shall be sick tonight,' replied the child laconically, helping himself to another sweetmeat.
So delighted was Barrie at this epigram that he offered the child a royalty of a halfpenny a performance for the copyright. The offer was promptly accepted, and must have proved a good financial investment for the youngster.
From Mrs. J. Comyns Carr's Reminiscences, ed. Eve Adams (1926), p. 93.