I ran, for I perceived that in a moment everyone upon this side of the hill would be moving. I found him in his bar, quite unaware of what was going on behind his house. A man stood with his back to me, talking to him.
At that I gripped my wife’s arm, and without ceremony ran her out into the road.
When the amphitheater had cleared I crept stealthily to the top and as the great excavation lay far from the plaza.
It did so indeed, and much sooner than she had expected