← He had looked from his book to me, and I looked back over my shoulder with a vague sense that I ought to have recognized him. 🔊
← I professed a wish to go right away till the whole thing was over. 🔊
← Odd and uncanny it seemed to me that he, Soames, in the flesh, in the waterproof cape, was at this moment living in the last decade of the next century, poring over books not yet written, and seeing and seen by men not yet born. 🔊
← My eyes gazed ever away from it to the clock over the kitchen door. 🔊