"Or perhaps Major Tifto has made important revelations."
Mrs. Crump is always poring over the Revelations, and nearly knows them by heart.
It need hardly be said that the revelations they have claimed to receive have been, thus far, without element of benefit to the human race.
And beside him, with his face buried in his hands, Raoul de Saint Hubert thanked God fervently that he had saved Diana the added torture of listening to the revelations of the past four months.
Uncle William, it might be mentioned in passing, had never quite forgotten Aunt Hannah's fateful call with its dire revelations concerning a certain unwanted, superfluous, third-party husband's brother.
They were by this time so convulsed with suppressed merriment that they had hard work not to shriek aloud their laughter. For, in spite of the tragic revelations the morrow would bring forth, the situation was so undeniably ridiculous that they could not resist its humor.