“Well, try to recollect⁠—can’t you?”

“Somehow it seems to me that the wind⁠—the wind blowed the⁠—the⁠—”

“Try harder, Tom! The wind did blow something. Come!”

Tom pressed his fingers on his forehead an anxious minute, and then said:

“I’ve got it now! I’ve got it now! It blowed the candle!”

“Mercy on us! Go on, Tom⁠—go on!”

“And it seems to me that you said, ‘Why, I believe that that door⁠—’ ”

“Go on , Tom!”