What they wanted to talk about was not the future but the past, about the days of Rudolf II, who had ruled the Holy Roman Empire in the 16 th century, when Prague dominated Europe, before Vienna.
They wanted to discuss things that happened at different points in time.
They wanted to discuss things that they envision to happen in the year 2035.
This was the winter that wasn't.
Poirot was stumped, having had no new ideas in recent days.
A little girl is inside sitting at the table.
A football player gets tackled by his opponent.
She never spends any time with her girlfriends.
Spectators blow a horn at a baseball game.