It was evident that something very exciting was either happening or expected, but though I asked each passenger, no one would give me the slightest explanation.
This state of excitement kept on for some little time.

And at last we saw before us the Pass opening out on the eastern side.

There were dark, rolling clouds overhead, and in the air the heavy, oppressive sense of thunder.

It seemed as though the mountain range had separated two atmospheres, and that now we had got into the thunderous one.

I was now myself looking out for the conveyance which was to take me to the Count.