Who is she married to ?" Caius could not answer.
The mother looked at him with curious steadfastness.
"I thought perhaps she was married to you," she said.
Surely the woman had seen what he had seen in the sea; but, question her as he would, Caius could gain nothing more from her--no hint of time or place, or any fact that at all added to his enlightenment.

She only grew frightened at his questions, and begged him in moving terms not to tell Day that she had spoken to him--not to tell the people in the village that her daughter had come back, or they would put her again in the asylum.

Truly, this last appeared to Cains a not unlikely consequence, but it was not his business to bring it about.

It was not for him, who shared her delusion, to condemn her.
After that, Caius knew that either he was mad or what he had seen he had seen, let the explanation be what it might--and he ceased to care much about the explanation.

He remembered the look of heart-satisfaction with which Day's wife had told him that her child had returned.