Inside Bowdler's house Grundy, Helen and the owner of the robot house sighed as midnight came and went. Bowdler voiced all their feelings when he said, "I am afraid we must give them up for lost. We have waited through three periods. There has been no sign of them. None at all."
While he was saying this, the R.A.'s were driving away with Comstock, Pat and the Picaroon.
"Then we can wait no longer?" Helen asked.
Shaking his head, Bowdler said, "No."
Grundy rose to his feet as he murmured, "I'm glad. This waiting has been worse than anything that the Board of Fathers can mete out to us."
Helen and Grundy paused at the door of the house and looked back regretfully, Grundy spoke, "It's been a wonderful month we had, we can remember that, darling."
She kissed him and they walked out into the darkness with Bowdler close behind them.
He said, "I shall be with you, and you can depend on my helping in any way that I can."
"To face the Board of Fathers!" Grundy's face was set. "I'll tell them a few home truths no matter what they finally decide to do to us."