We had a more important thing to attend to: we all flew home, and lost not a moment in getting ready to lead a better life.
The night presently closed down.

Then came on that tremendous and utterly unaccountable storm.

I was perfectly dazed; I could not understand it.

It seemed to me that there must be some mistake.

The elements were turned loose, and they rattled and banged and blazed away in the most blind and frantic manner.