And she generally began without a preface and finished without a result.

If you interrupted her she would either go right along without noticing, or answer with a couple of words, and go back and say the sentence over again.

So, interruptions only did harm; and yet I had to interrupt, and interrupt pretty frequently, too, in order to save my life; a person would die if he let her monotony drip on him right along all day.
"Great Scott!" I said in my distress.

She went right back and began over again: "So they two departed and rode into a great forest.

And--" "_Which_ two ?" "Sir Gawaine and Sir Uwaine.