Mary Poppins Comes Back Author:P.L. Travers From the beginning Mary Poppins was a Great Exception. She has now definitly become a National Institution. When she left the Banks family in that highly unconventional but characteristic manner, sailing over the housetops in the wake of her umbrella, it was well understood that she would come back one fine day. For there was the evidence of the... more » cryptic note: "Dear Jane, Michael had the compass so the picture is for you. Au revior. Mary Poppins....« less