Our social order will probably seem very complex to you.

To tell you the truth, I don't understand it myself very clearly.

Nobody does.

You will, perhaps--bye and bye.

We have to go to the Council." Graham's attention was divided between the urgent necessity of his inquiries and the people in the passages and halls they were traversing.
For a moment his mind would be concentrated upon Howard and the halting answers he made, and then he would lose the thread in response to some vivid unexpected impression.