The minute that seems to last a year

While catching a cold, you consider whether to try to catch the cat now, while she is hiding in the back of the garden and you might get a flu or influenza from it, or whether you will go to bed, but then have to go out there again later, when in an hour the beast will perhaps be meowing on the sidewalk ….
(Het Vaderland, ‘s Gravenhage, 1927)