Where had Cutty gone?
Even as she expressed the query she smelt burning tobacco.

She ran out into the kitchen, to behold Cutty seated in a chair calmly smoking his infamous pipe! "And I thought you were gone! What did you say to that policeman ?" "I hypnotized him, Kitty." "The newspaper ?" "No.

Just looked into his eye and made a few passes with my hands." "Of course, if you believe you ought not to tell me--" said Kitty, which is the way all women start their wheedling.
Cutty looked into the bowl of his pipe.
"Kitty, when you throw a cobble into a pond, what happens?
A splash.

But did you ever notice the way the ripples have of running on and on, until they touch the farthest shore ?" "Yes.

And this is a ripple from some big stone cast into the pond of southeastern Europe.