"Do you never observe people?" I asked him.
He stared at me in amazement.
"Why, of course I do," he answered, and he got down two more thick copy-books. Everything Hugh John did about this time was original and unexpected.
"People!" he said, holding up the two manuscript books; "why, these are stuffed full of people. Enough to make a real book!"
Then I confided to Hugh John the great secret that I was making a book.
A look of joy flashed over his face.
"Let's make one together!" he said, "and not tell anybody!"
"Let's!" I answered.
Because I felt that I really owed Hugh John something for showing me the Cave.
And it was arranged that he was to tell me about his People and Things, and I was to write everything down with my thoughts planted in here and there.