That, don-wise, almost seemed to ask aloud,

“Who is he, after all?” Not one of us.

Why weigh his facts, then, further, since we hold

The official seals of truth in this our time.

Such men are always wrong. They come and go.

The breeze would soon blow over.

All this implied,

Not spoken, in that small dry steady smile,

Doctor Daubeny gathered up his tails

And made one definite and emphatic point