He had taken off his ring without unbending his finger.

Yes, he could do it again now; it was just as easy as taking it off in the ordinary way.

He certainly had not been dreaming when the Mummy had become Queen Nitocris and given him the wine.

He could not have been mad or dreaming, because his daughter was there.

The episode of the strange stealers who had come into his house--that too was real, for they had left their lamp and the man's shoes behind them, and the Mummy was gone! He took a piece of string out of his pocket, tied the two ends, and then with the greatest ease tied another knot in the string without undoing the first.
A motor-car came humming along the road towards him, and he began to think what this place was like a thousand years before motors were heard of.