"Indeed! And where did you think yourself? In Australia?"
"I had no idea. If you had told me I was in Australia I should have believed you. I have been traveling so high above the earth that the upper ether went to my head—and legs."
"——FAR AND FAST, EVEN FOR A BIRD MAN"—Page 181
"You must have been fast and far, even for a bird man, if you didn't know on which side of the ocean you had landed."
There was a silence:—a silence of doubt and of budding suspicion in the woman's mind.
"Listen, Ruth. I have been far and fast, even for a bird man. I will tell you all about it later, if you don't mind. If I told you now, you would think me crazier, if possible, than when I asked those questions. And I shouldn't blame you. My story would seem as fantastic as if I had been around the world in a night, or to another planet. What I have done—where I have been is—is—so impossible that you would be a very credulous person to believe it. But later I will tell you all—everything—please consider me in my right mind."
"In your right mind! Why, Drowsy, you were never in your right mind! So I should believe anything you told me—unless it was something easy or natural, like other people. You were always doing impossible things and thinking impossible thoughts—a most disturbing boy. I remember I always felt responsible for you. You wanted the moon—even then."