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That's all."
"I knew that man wasn't you--all along. I tried to think it was. I
tried to think perhaps the water had altered your wrists and feet and
the colour of your hair."
"Ah!"
"I'd always feared you'd come back."
Mr. Polly sat down by his egg. "I haven't come back," he said very
earnestly. "Don't you think it."
"'Ow we'll pay back the insurance now I don't know." She was
weeping. She produced a handkerchief and covered her face.
"Look here, Miriam," said Mr. Polly. "I haven't come back and I'm not
coming back. I'm--I'm a Visitant from Another World. You shut up about
me and I'll shut up about myself. I came back because I thought you
might be hard up or in trouble or some silly thing like that. Now I
see you again--I'm satisfied. I'm satisfied completely. See? I'm going
to absquatulate, see? Hey Presto right away."
He turned to his tea for a moment, finished his cup noisily, stood up.
"
Don't you think you're going to see me again," he said, "for you
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