"Peregrin Took, where have you been?" Pearl burst out when Pippin came galloping up the lane; mischance and his strange and unfamiliar had had him dodging arrows until someone recognized him. His explanation was too brief to make any sense at all. "Well, while you've been tarrying in foreign parts on a lark, we've had to deal with a veritable invasion of Big People!" Her tirade was cut short as her mother rushed outside to embrace Pippin.
"Well I'm here now," he said, strangely calm and cheerful. And was he taller? "And we've all got to get back to Hobbiton."