Now, just look!' Earwaker, with attentive smile, followed the demonstration.
'Peak is busy with them as well,' said Christian, presently.

'Has he told you his theory of their locomotion?
Nobody has found out yet how the little beggars move about.

Peak has a bright idea.' They spent ten minutes in the laboratory, then went downstairs.

Two other guests had meanwhile arrived, and were conversing with the hostess, Miss Moxey.

The shy, awkward, hard-featured girl was grown into a woman whose face made such declaration of intellect and character that, after the first moment, one became indifferent to its lack of feminine beauty.