← After exchanging a few words, I said with a glance to the open book, "I see I am interrupting you," and was about to pass on, 🔊
← but, "I prefer," Soames replied in his toneless voice, "to be interrupted," and I obeyed his gesture that I should sit down. 🔊
← But here he was interrupted by a sudden loud crack of the chair at the next table. 🔊