CHAPTER VIIIDoubt
It was only when they got to bed that the three experienced the full weight of their weariness. Oddly enough, the moment they came back into their own time and space normal bodily conditions reasserted themselves and they felt indeed as if they had been wandering for ages without food or drink. As to the Time-discrepancy between planes, Brooks frankly had no explanation to offer since it involved deep mathematical issues.
It was ten the following morning before the manservant awakened each of them in turn. Immediately after breakfast, Brooks convened a council of action in the library.
“What we have discovered,” he said earnestly, tapping his fingers emphatically on top of the polished desk, “opens a huge field of possibility—so huge one can’t grasp it all at once. Unl
