Age, history, situation, setting, sanctity--the Dome of the Rock has the advantage of all those, and the purple sky, crowded with coloured stars beyond it is more wonderful over Jerusalem, because of the clearness of the mountain air.
In that minute, and for the first time, I hated the men who could plot to blow up that place.

Hitherto I had been merely interested.
Because it was long after the hour when non-Moslem visitors are allowed to go about the place with guides, we were submitted to rather careful scrutiny by men who came out of the shadows and said nothing, but peered into our faces.

They did not speak to let us by, but signified admittance by turning uninterested backs and retiring to some dark corners to resume the vigil.

I thought that the Sikh sentry, who stood with bayonet fixed outside the arch, looked at Grim with something more than curiosity, but no sign that I could detect passed between them.
The great white moonlit courtyard was empty.

Not a soul stirred in it.