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"Let us lapse back again," said Lady Muriel. "Take another cup of tea? I hope that's sound common sense?"
"And all that strange adventure," I thought, "has occupied the space of a single comma in Lady Muriel's speech! A single comma, for which grammarians tell us to 'count one'! " (I felt no doubt that the Professor had kindly put back the time for me, to the exact point at which I had gone to sleep.)