They went now slowly perforce.
Redwood was moved to speak.

"All this," he said, "is strange." "Big," said Cossar.
"Strange.

And strange that it should be strange to me--I, who am, in a sense, the beginning of it all.

It's--" He stopped, wrestling with his elusive meaning, and threw an unseen gesture at the cliff.
"I have not thought of it before.

I have been busy, and the years have passed.