He stopped and moved his legs.
‘I and sorry but my arms and legs are quite tired. I don’t want to take up your time with my uninteresting story. I can just say that some unusual happenings brought me to England. I was near to this building this evening, when I saw a policeman looking at me too closely. I thought perhaps he wanted to ask me some difficult questions, so I quickly came in here with all the other visitors. Then I had a very good idea. I told somebody that I saw smoke. Everybody ran out into the street, thinking there was a fire. I stayed here. I undressed that figure of me, put on his coat and quickly put the figure at the back of the room, where nobody could see it. Then I took its place here on the stand.
‘I must say that I had a very tiring evening. But luckily the people didn’t watch me all the time. I could breathe sometimes and move my arms and legs a little.
