... the headland watching the squadron circling faraway, and how I weighed the full meaning of the sight, seeing clearly theway things must go. And then even it was not too late. I might have goneback, ... andclearer again until they vanished from the sky. And after that we notedto the northward, and very high, Gresham's fighting machines hanginghigh over Naples like an evening swarm of gnats."It ... as thoughnothing unusual was going on, as though nothing had changed… It wastremendously still there, the sun high and the shadows still; even theshadows of the weeds upon the entablature were...