yet in old days there had been monsters on the earth, and certainly some people had believed in just such mysterious changes of identity.

It was all very strange.

Just fancy how any stranger--say a doctor--would regard her, if she were to tell him that she had been to a tea-party with an antediluvian monster, and that they had been waited on by up-to-date men-servants.
Adam had returned, exhilarated by his walk, and more settled in his mind than he had been for some time.

Like Mimi, he had gone through the phase of doubt and inability to believe in the reality of things, though it had not affected him to the same extent.

The idea, however, that his wife was suffering ill-effects from her terrible ordeal, braced him up.