He glanced back at Fred, who had again closed his eyes and was prattling on about the best ways to "case" the storage facility.
The treatment of the subject, the atmosphere which surrounds it, the delicacy in which the little prattling ways of the nuns, their jealousies, their tiny trifles, are presented, takes the reader entirely by surprise.
She was prattling on about the planet Zzz where some arch villain who closely resembled Jerome Shipton, was to meet his due while climbing an icy cliff, in hot pursuit of a fair maiden whom Dean took to be a greatly slimmed down version of the author.
The daft bint was prattling away for hours without even telling them what the opportunity was and they all went to sleep.
