Xiangzi had stopped sweating. He looked northward, then stopped to put up the rain-hood and sheet. He knew the speed with which storms break in summer. There was no time to lose.

• 祥子身上没了汗，向北边看了一眼，把车停住，上了雨布，他晓得夏天的雨是说来就来，不容工夫的。