A most refreshing story! I put on a sudden air of sternness, and shot a question at her like a bullet.
"Are you making all this up, young woman ?" She started-looked quite scared.
"You mean I tell lies?
But no.

It is all true.

Why shouldn't it be true?
How else could I have come here ?" The question was unanswerable.

Her story was as preposterous as her garments.

But her garments were real enough.