Then I proceeded to go off into an old-fashioned swoon.
I woke with a burning head and the sun glaring in my face.

For a long time I lay motionless, for those horrible fumes seemed to have loosened my joints and dulled my brain.

Sounds came to me from the house--men speaking throatily and the throbbing of a stationary car.

There was a little gap in the parapet to which I wriggled, and from which I had some sort of prospect of the yard.

I saw figures come out--a servant with his head bound up, and then a younger man in knickerbockers.