There'll be an awful row." There probably would be because that moment had at last been reached when authority was flung absolutely to the winds of heaven.

The world seemed, in a moment, to have gone mad.

Take Bunning, his cheeks flushed, his body shaking, his eyes flaming, for an example.

Olva, dark, motionless in his shadow, watched it all and waited for his moment.

He knew that it was coming.