And if it would be an exaggeration to assert, that evening papers appeared with Stop-press News: "5.40.

Mrs.Leek went out shopping," the exaggeration would not be very extravagant.

For a fortnight Priam had not been beyond the door during daylight.

It was Alice who, alarmed by Priam's pallid cheeks and tightened nerves, had devised the plan of flight before the early summer dawn.
They reached East Putney Station, of which the gates were closed, the first workman's train being not yet due.

And there they stood.