No wife was there to greet him; no drunken-footed babe, for the Ape had learned to walk now, albeit unsteadily; not even a servant girl to make some explanation.

He stalked through the house wonderingly, back to the kitchen, which looked out upon a green back-yard where they had erected a tent, and had there had dinners and inhaled the odor of the grass.

He found in the kitchen the two girls, who were all delight, and exhibited but slight awe at his presence.

He recognized that all was well, and looked out through the descending sheets of water.
There, beside the quaint tent set upon the green-sward, were two people.

One was a graceful woman, one a sturdy, shouting child.
Neither was garbed save in the simplest way.