Why were they shouting?
What is the danger ?" "We have our troubles," said Howard.

His eyes avoided Graham's enquiry.
"This is a time of unrest.

And, in fact, your appearance, your waking just now, has a sort of connexion--" He spoke jerkily, like a man not quite sure of his breathing.

He stopped abruptly.
"I don't understand," said Graham.
"It will be clearer later," said Howard.
He glanced uneasily upward, as though he found the progress of the lift slow.
"I shall understand better, no doubt, when I have seen my way about a little," said Graham puzzled.

"It will be--it is bound to be perplexing.
At present it is all so strange.