"But all that's done and forgotten now, and we can only guess a bit of it here and there. The tangible fact is this machine and these records, Beatrice. They're real, and we've got them. And the quicker we see what they have to tell us the better, eh?"
She clapped her hands with enthusiasm.
"Put on a record, Allan, quick! Let's hear the voices of the past once more--human voices--the voices of the age that was!" she cried, excited as a child.