He followed them up the stairs and along the right hand side of the gallery.

The Count opened a door of heavy black oak and stood aside for his Countess to enter.

Again the younger of his companions went first, and again he followed; then, as the elder man entered and closed the door, the scene was blotted out as though a sudden darkness had fallen upon his eyes.
"Dear me!" he said, getting up and rubbing his temples with both hands.
"If I hadn't had so many extraordinary experiences since my promotion to the plane of N4, I should probably be a little scared as well.

But it is really astonishing how soon the trained intellect gets accustomed to anything--even the eccentricities of the fourth dimensional world.
Well, well! I hope that's not the end of the adventure, I was getting quite interested.

I suppose this must be in some obscure way the reason why those paragraphs in the _Pall Mall_ interested me so strangely." He walked towards the window, pulled the blind aside and looked out.