It was as if the whole world centred in him, as if he represented the modern spirit that must be purified away by burning before things could return to their normal state.

I knew what he represented ...

but there it was.
It was part of my programme, the attendance at the poultry show; I was to go back to the cottage with Churchill, after he had made his speech.
It was rather extraordinary, the sensations of that function.

I went in rather late, with the reporter of the _Hour_, who was anxious to do me the favour of introducing me without payment--it was his way of making himself pleasant, and I had the reputation of knowing celebrities.

It _was_ rather extraordinary to be back again in the midst of this sort of thing, to be walking over a crowded, green paddock, hedged in with tall trees and dotted here and there with the gaily striped species of tent that is called marquee.