"We got here all right, as we told you over the wire.

Then Maqueda talked to you for a long while until you rang off, saying you wanted to speak to Japhet.

After that, at ten o'clock precisely, we heard the thud of the explosion.

Next, as we were preparing to go out to see what had happened, Joshua arrived alone, announced that the idol Harmac had been destroyed, and demanded that the Child of Kings, 'for State reasons,' should accompany him to his own castle.

She declined and, as he insisted, I took it upon myself to kick him out of the place.