would go upstairs myself for the box she was clamouring for. Leatherhead We can’t possibly stay here, I said; and as I spoke the firing reopened for a moment upon the common. “But where are we to go?” said my wife in terror. I thought perplexed. Then I remembered her cousins at Leatherhead. Leatherhead! I …

At that I gripped my wife’s arm, and without ceremony ran her out into the road.

I and my wife stood amazed. Then I realised that the crest of Maybury Hill must be within range of the Martians