If she hadn't showed up at all Wednesday night, then where had her car keys come from?

The keys came out of his pocket and he tried the first without success.

Then I pulled the newspaper from under the door and the key came with it.

The key, as it turned out, came from an elf child.

He said the key had come to him during his sickness.

Each key had come to her in a different way.

But how could she have known that key would come in a six foot five, two hundred pound package?

Now the key did presently come into my hands, and the way that it happened was this.

The key came to mean the right of return.

For me, the key comes at the end of the original story.