This was all happening while I was walking through the bus station and taking my place in the queue; and when I gained my seat I began looking in my bag for a piece of paper and a biro, and then, on the inside of a chocolate - bar wrapping I wrote what I must memorize and recite if I were to get the message over to the doctor — I, who even made heavy weather of describing a sore throat; I, who after a period in the waiting - room could dry up so as to be virtually dumb.
This was all happening while I was walking through the bus station and taking my place in the queue; and when I gained my seat I began looking in my bag for a piece of paper and a biro, and then, on the inside of a chocolate - bar wrapping I wrote what I must memorize and recite if I were to get the message over to the doctor — I, who even predicted bad weather for describing a sore throat; I, who after a period in the waiting - room could dry up so as to be virtually dumb.