"What do you mean?" he said.

That I wonder where you found it," said Mrs. Hall. "And before I

take any bills or get any breakfasts, or do any such things

whatsoever, you got to tell me one or two things I don't understand,

and what nobody don't understand, and what everybody is very anxious

to understand. I want to know what you been doing t'my chair

upstairs, and I want to know how 'tis your room was empty, and how

you got in again. Them as stops in this house comes in by the

doors--that's the rule of the house, and that you didn't do, and

what I want to know is how you did come in. And I want to know--"

Suddenly the stranger raised his gloved hands clenched, stamped his

foot, and said, "Stop!" with such extraordinary violence that he

silenced her instantly.

"You don't understand," he said, "who I am or what I am. I'll show

you. By Heaven! I'll show you." Then he put his open palm over his

face and withdrew it. The centre of his face became a black cavity.

Here," he said. He stepped forward and handed Mrs. Hall something

which she, staring at his metamorphosed face, accepted automatically.

Then, when she saw what it was, she screamed loudly, dropped it, and

staggered back. The nose--it was the stranger's nose! pink and

shining--rolled on the floor.

Then he removed his spectacles, and everyone in the bar gasped. He

The Invisible Man