The dawn was beginning to spread pallidly above us, gleaming mournfully through the glass of the palm-house.

People began to pass, muffled up, on their way out of the place.
"You may go ..." he was beginning.

But the expression of his face altered.

Miss Granger, muffled up like all the rest of the world, was coming out of the inner door.

"We have been having a charming ..." he began to her.