I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw you lying in that doorway.

Why didn't you ask me to come with you, and show you these places ?" "It would have been better," she said, with her eyes closed.

Waymark leaned back.

Conversation was difficult in the noise of the vehicle, and for a long time neither spoke.
"I told the man to drive to Edgware Road," Waymark said then.

"Shall he go on to the house ?" "No; I had rather walk the last part." They talked brokenly of the Lane and its inhabitants.