Beware the Dog : Roald Dahl [17 of 32]

• Once toward evening he heard the noise of another aircraft. It was far away, but even so he knew that it was a single-engined machine.
• But he could not place it. It was going fast; he could tell that. But it wasn't a Spit, and it wasn't a Hurricane Fighter Air Craft.
• It did not sound like an American engine either. They make more noise. He did not know what it was, and it worried him greatly.
• Perhaps I am very ill, he thought. Perhaps I am imagining things. Perhaps I am a little delirious. I simply do not know what to think.
• That evening the nurse came in with a basin of hot water and began to wash him.
• "Well," she said, "I hope you don't still think that we're being bombed."