farmer said to the second in the railway carriage when we had all got
in:

"Where'd he come from?"

The other, who was an old man, grinned and said:

"Where we all come from, I suppose, and where we all go to." He touched
his forehead with his hand. "He said he'd come from the End of the
World."

"Ar," said the other gloomily in answer, "like enough!" And after that
they talked no more about the matter.