← I was sure Soames didn't want my company; but I asked, as it would have seemed brutal not to, whether I might join him, and took the chair opposite to his. 🔊
← But here he was interrupted by a sudden loud crack of the chair at the next table. 🔊
← With an effort I controlled myself and rose from my chair. 🔊
← Was it in the Green Park or in Kensington Gardens or where was it that I sat on a chair beneath a tree, trying to read an evening paper? 🔊
← I managed to turn in my chair and to say, not without a semblance of lightness, "Aha, come in!" 🔊
← Soames was wretchedly rising from his chair when, with a desperate, quick gesture, I swept together two dinner-knives that were on the table, and laid their blades across each other. 🔊