He ran hard for a quarter of a mile, and at the end of that distance it began to be borne in upon him as a strange and curious thing that there were so few people about, and that there were no shops open.
Corse per un quarto di miglio, e alla fine di quel tratto, cominciò a pensare ch’era strano e curioso che vi fosse tanta poca gente in giro, e che nessuna bottega fosse ancora aperta.