Only later did he discover that the man, a Vietnamese immigrant, was trying to tell him that his son was having trouble breathing.
Did he discover that the Masons are not merely a bunch of old guys dressed up in funny costumes enjoying a harmless night away from the wives?
Only eight years later, when Hoepker went to meet Ali at his home did he discover that Ali and the baker's daughter, Belinda, had eventually wed.
His parents returned to India shortly after his birth and only when his mother reappeared four years later did he discover that he had been living, very happily, in someone else's family.
Only then did he discover that a fellow pilot, Pat Learmond, also his closest friend, was among four of the squadron's men, including its commanding officer, who had been lost, shot down.
Not until the meat course was under way did he discover that he had entered the wrong house, and by that time it didn't seem worth changing so he stayed and had an unusually merry evening.
Not only did he discover that finding the 87 rooms the Rays needed was impossible, but hotel manager after hotel manager also said there was barely a spare cot.
During the nineteen-seventies oil crisis, Brookes argued that devising ways to produce goods with less oil — an obvious response to higher prices — would merely accommodate the new prices, causing energy consumption to be higher than it would have been if no effort to increase efficiency had been made; only later did he discover that Jevons had anticipated him by more than a century.
