Oh, would you look at that!" "That" happened to be Mount Lassen, belching forth a stupendous column of ashes and smoke.

Up, up, up it went, as though it meant to go on and on into infinity.

Jack had seen it too often to be affected as he had been that first night.

He looked at Marion instead.

She was standing with her hands clinched by her side, and her breath sucking in.