As a final flourish, he put a mechanical clock on the top floor, which he had brought from Parisian horologer.

Then I remembered that Mistress Walgrave had a constant gossip in Mistress Straw, the horologer’s wife, three doors off.

Thrice the horologers have looked into the great crystal globe wherein are foretold all happenings to be, and thrice the globe was blank.