' He said it
proudly. 'She understands everything--better even than Mother.' Jimbo
had told most. It was all right. His leadership was maintained and
justified. They entered the main stream and plunged downwards with it
towards the earth--three flitting figures dipped in this store of
golden brilliance.
A delicious and wonderful thing then happened. All three remembered.
'This was where we met you first,' they told him, settling down among
the trees together side by side. 'We saw your teeth of gold. You came
in that train----'
'I was thinking about it--in England,' he exclaimed, 'and about coming
out to find you here.'
'The Starlight Express,' put in Jimbo.
'----and you were just coming up to speak to us when we woke, or you
woke, or somebody woke--and it all went,' said Monkey.
'That was when I stopped thinking about it,' he explained.
'It all vanished anyhow. And the next time was'--she paused a moment--
'you--we saw your two gold teeth again somewhere, and half recognised
you----'
It was the daylight world that seemed vague and dreamlike now, hard to
remember clearly.
'In another train--' Jimbo helped her, 'the Geneva omnibus that starts
at--at----' But even Jimbo could not recall further details.
'You're wumbled,' said Rogers, helping himself and the others at the
same time.
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