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Updated: May 19, 2025
He appeared to be in a hurry. Without any preliminary questions, he said, "Take my card to Mrs. Gallilee." "My mistress is out, sir." The music-master looked impatiently at the hall-clock. The hall-clock answered him by striking the half hour after five. "Do you expect Mrs. Gallilee back soon?" "We don't know, sir. The footman had his orders to be in waiting with the carriage, at five."
"Doos oo always confuses two animals together?" Bruno asked. "Pretty often, I'm afraid," the Professor candidly confessed. "Now, for instance, there's the rabbit-hutch and the hall-clock." The Professor pointed them out. "One gets a little confused with them both having doors, you know. Now, only yesterday would you believe it? I put some lettuces into the clock, and tried to wind up the rabbit!"
Over a final dish of plum preserves and an imposing segment of marble cake he relented so far as to tell Clytie something of his adventures especially since she had said that the big hall-clock was very likely slow that it must surely be a lot later than a quarter past seven.
My wife, the children, and two maid-servants were all sleeping upstairs, and I had a small bed in my study, which was on the ground floor. The house was shrouded in darkness, and the only sound that broke the silence was the ticking of the hall-clock.
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