But it was all nonsense.

I had the right idea, though, all the time; I realized that if that tandem was going to be stopped it would have to be stopped before it hit our line." Mills nodded.
"I had the idea, as I say, but I couldn't apply it.

And that's the way things stood last night when I went to bed.

I had sat up until after eleven and had used up all the paper I had, and so when I got into bed I saw diagrams all over the place and had an awful time to get to sleep.
But at last I did.

And then I dreamed.
"And in the dream I was playing football.