`` but- '' `` it 's fine , '' she urged me , `` they 're not going to let you go back for a long time anyway . they raced each other for the door . `` tell me where you come from , '' he said again . then he slowly opened his eyes to me again . wrapped in rags and stuffed up in the toe '' . when i was done talking , he kept looking at me without saying a word . ill believe that when i hear it from her . 