← So I dropped the subject of Soames. 🔊
← Soames removed the cigarette from his mouth and dropped it into his glass of Sauterne. 🔊
← My arms gradually became stiff; they ached; but I could not drop them—now. 🔊
← Only the sound of Berthe's brisk footstep from the kitchen enabled me, forced me, to drop it, and to utter: "What shall we have to eat, Soames?" 🔊