Mrs Keeling got up in some confusion.IIFRANK'S INVENTORY. FRANK'S INVENTORY.
ONE:Nice books, said Charles."Then all we have to do is to prove that the future is involved. Our lunatic must convince us that he is not of our age, that he has, in fact, and probably by mechanical means, found his way back to an age of flesh and blood. So far, we are agreed, for I willingly side with you in your opinion that the Clockwork man could not exist in the present; while I am open to be convinced[Pg 57] that he is a quite credible invention of the remote future."
"Gordon, I am so glad you have come," she whispered. "I have stolen away for half an hour as Mamie is better. If she wants me I have told the nurse----"Two or three bystanders helped us bear him upstairs, where, turning from the bedside, I pressed Camille with eager questions.I wont hush. You did all those things, and what was a girl to make of them except what I made of them? I put the natural construction on them. And you know it.