He told us that it had been a fine day today and we told him that it had been a fine day yesterday, and then we all told each other that we thought it would be a fine day tomorrow.
After that it came out that we were strangers in the neighbourhood and that we were going away the next morning.
Then there was pause in the conversation. We looked around the room and saw an old glass-case over the chimney-piece which contained a trout. This trout fascinated me. It was gigantic. In fact, it was so big that I thought it was a cod.
