| 1 | No ordinary pills bring any relief, but he gave us an exotic prescription from across the seas, together with a packet of aromatic powder he'd procured as adjuvant goodness knows where. | |
| 2 | At night, you sipped tea in sorrow, and watched the powdered tea-leaves with S. You did not turn on the lamp. | |
| 3 | My days were not days of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and fretted by the ticking of a clock; |