"I don't know, I'm sure—as they all cross it before they get to it, by the time they get there they have already crossed it, so it's impossible to make them pass through the turnstiles."
"I wish I knew how to get to Never Was," said Billy sadly.
"I can't help you; because what has once been done can't be undone, unless time turns back, and as what you have done was done before you did it, I don't see how you can ever do it."
"No, I'm very sure you can't help me," said Billy. "But of one thing I am certain, I must get to Bogie Man's house."
"You will do well if you do, for no one has ever seen Bogie Man," said the Toll Gate Keeper.
"No one has ever seen him?"
"No—lots of people have thought they saw him but he keeps himself just out of sight."
"I wonder what time it is?" said Billy, pulling out his Waterbury. "I do hate to waste so much time—why it can't be eleven o'clock yet."
"Just half past ten," said the Toll Man, pulling out his sun dial.