"THE WATCH-WHER is hiding something," F'lar told Fnor as they consulted in the hastily cleaned great chamber.

"The watch-wher is hiding something," F'lar told F'nor as they consulted in the hastily cleaned Great Hall.

Yet here she was, entirely unself-conscious in dusty trews, her hair tied back, her face smudged and fingernails hastily but not successfully cleaned.

Age did not matter; what mattered was that it bore all the signs of having been unused for some time, but it had not been cleaned and refurbished hastily.

Fueling the industry are loan exhibitions, for which works are sometimes hastily cleaned to make them conform in appearance to other objects on view, and the expectations of a public used to the hyped-up colors of photographic reproductions and slides.

Someone must have hastily cleaned up the breakage, but hadn't had time to get the gritty pieces.