It is due at ten o’clock.
“I wonder will it be punctual.”
Thus he was wondering ever and anon until we reached the Bristol station, where we parted, he going one way and I another; perhaps he wondering who I was, and I wondering who he was.
I remember meeting another Wonderer in the house of a friend of mine with whom I had intended to spend part of the evening.
Scarcely had we been introduced to each other when he said,—
“I wonder whether the Republican or Democrat candidate is elected to the American Presidency.”
That is a matter in which I do not profess to be posted up, I replied.
Then he said, “I wonder how Lord Salisbury is getting on in the Conference.”
From all the newspaper reports he seems to be getting on very well, I observed.
After a very brief pause, he said, “I wonder whether there will be war. I wonder whether Russia really means war or peace.”