Perhaps the professor had told them to take the day off.

So then the professor tells her that she can go back in time and meet him.

If you really want to learn something, forget it, the professor told us.

"You can write all day and not say anything," his professor told him.

The village was, as the Professor had told us, very small.

Around him, the professor could tell that everyone was uncertain what had happened.

The professor told me he'd knocked around there far too long.

"Suppose we get the Professor to tell us a story."

The professor could tell many of the people around him were becoming fascinated.

"Okay, we're going to do something about the pain now," the professor told her.