I was at home at that hour and writing in my study; and although my French windows face towards Ottershaw and the blind was up (for I loved in those days to look up at the night sky), I saw nothing of it. Yet this strangest of all things that ever came to earth from outer space must have fallen while I was sitting there, visible to me had I only looked up as it passed. Some of those who saw its flight say it travelled with a hissing sound. I myself heard nothing of that. –The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells Which quotation most clearly reveals the locations of both the object and the narrator? ". . . Although my French windows face towards Ottershaw and the blind was up. . . I saw nothing of it. " ". . . For I loved in those days to look up at the night sky. . . " "Yet this strangest of all things that ever came to earth from outer space must have fallen while I was sitting there. . . ".