The Day of Waiting and the Flight from Maybury Hill

1 Seen from above, Maybury Hill lies drowsy in the hot haze of a Saturday dawn

2 The neighbour leans on the garden fence and laughs about the insurance bill

3 On a hot, dull Saturday morning the narrator walks down to the railway bridge.

4 On his lawn, the narrator stops dead as the Oriental College trees burst into red flame

5 Struck by the Heat-Ray, the narrator's chimney bursts and bricks clatter down the tiles

6 The narrator grabs his wife's arm and pulls her through the side gate into the sandy lane.

7 The narrator's terrified wife watches hussars ride under the railway bridge

8 Two women wait in the dog cart outside the house and stare at the burning beeches below

9 A dismounted hussar runs past the narrator's gate, shouting news of the Martian machine

10 The fleeing dog cart passes wheat fields as the crest behind it pours smoke and fire