Quite half were with us, and the others knew it.

Directly they knew you had got away, those looking for you dropped.

We killed the man who shot at you--an hour ago.

And we occupied the flying stages at the outset in every city we could, and so stopped and captured the greater aeroplanes, and as for the little flying machines that turned out--for some did--we kept up too straight and steady a fire for them to get near the Council House.

If they dropped they couldn't rise again, because there's no clear space about there for them to get up.