“When I worked for the CIA, my offtime cover was as a personal guide in dangerous parts of the world. I made a bundle. So we're comfortable.”

Loose eccentric reversing gear gave way about 1836 to the early forms of gab motion. … In 1840 Stephenson evolved a motion in which the gabs were connected directly to the valve spindle.

The man peeped through the small hole.

Of course there are dull men who could not understand a tabby-cat or a professional cricketer, let alone an expert autothaumaturgist—a self-mystery-maker—like a woman.