[46]
The question whether he actually did the deed
belongs, in the first place, to the second division of
time, namely the present, and secondly to time that
is almost, though not actually contemporary: under
this latter head come circumstances such as noise,
cries or groans,1
1 cp.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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