Sylvie and Bruno

Chapter 22

CROSSING THE LINE.

"Let us lapse back again," said Lady Muriel. "Take another cup of tea?

I hope that's sound common sense?"

"And all that strange adventure," I thought, "has occupied the space of

a single comma in Lady Muriel's speech! A single comma, for which

grammarians tell us to 'count one'!" (I felt no doubt that the

Professor had kindly put back the time for me, to the exact point at

which I had gone to sleep.)

When, a few minutes afterwards, we left the house, Arthur's first

remark was certainly a strange one. "We've been there just twenty

minutes," he said, "and I've done nothing but listen to you and Lady

Muriel talking: and yet, somehow, I feel exactly as if I had been

talking with her for an hour at least!"

And so he had been, I felt no doubt: only, as the time ha