Hanno has just taken the telephone call from Flora, when they conversed in French. Then:
"He put the receiver back and turned to his companions. For a moment only the wind outside gave utterance." (p. 433)
Yet again the wind underlines a significant pause in the dialogue. We notice it here only because we have noticed it so often before. I have searched the blog but do not seem to have quoted this particular example before. It is of no great significance but we want to leave no stone unturned in this latest rereading of Boat. As a matter of fact, many stones will have been unturned because I will have missed many historical or other references that Poul Anderson has incorporated into his text.
We need to turn elsewhere. There is a Biblical reference in the Prologue to Starfarers but we have noticed it before. See here.
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