It was as though just above you invisible telegraph-wires had jangled, and their rush through the air was like the roar that rises to the car window when two express-trains going in opposite directions pass at sixty miles an hour.

When these sounds assailed them the people flying from the city would scream.

Some of them, as though they had been hit, would fall on their knees.

Others were sobbing and praying aloud.

The tears rolled down their cheeks.