Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - IT'S time to go to the station, Tom. Come on, then. Oh, I'm not going it's too wet. Shouldn't have a crimp left if I went out such a day as this and I want to look nice when Polly comes. You don't expect me to go and bring home a strange girl alone, do you And Tom looked as much alarmed as if his sister had proposed to him to escort the wild woman of Australia.