There's a joke there about going to bed with bottles that Doc won't make.

"The same fire as the one that got the library, perhaps?" That was the only building so far to have looked to have been touched by the fire. Apart from the ones that are too run down to investigate, or already in ruins.

"Couldn't do much I'm afraid. If we were in the house that the photographs were taken of, we could not go outside to confirm it. The power went out yesterday and between the phantoms in the everchanging number of mirrors watching us, the strange noises and wondering if those with the swirl on their palms were going to die first, we were kept sufficiently preoccupied to not give much thought to the photographs."