And Ruth--has all the trouble we have and some special ones of her own. I've an idea"-- he hesitated--"an idea that there was no exaggeration in that story she told--an idea that if anything she underplayed it."
"I, too," I replied somberly. "And to me it is the most hideous phase of this whole situation--and for reasons not all connected with Ruth," I added. "Hideous!" he repeated. "Unthinkable--yet all this is unthinkable. And still--it is! And Ventnor--coming back --that way. Like a lost soul finding voice.英文原著 · 《The Metal Monster》