It was late in the afternoon before I woke, strengthened and refreshed. Sherlock Holmes still sat exactly as I had left him, savethat he had laid aside his violin and was deep in a book. He looked across at me, as I stirred, and I noticed that his face was dark and troubled.
"You have slept soundly," he said. "I feared that our talk would wake you."
"I heard nothing," I answered. "Have you had fresh news, then?"
"Unfortunately, no. I confess that I am surprised and disappointed. I expected something definite by this time. Wiggins has just been up to report. He says that no trace can be found of the launch. It is a provoking check, for every hour is of importance."
下午我醒來的時候，時間已經不早，我的精神也已完全恢復了。福爾摩斯仍坐在原先的地方，只不過放下小提琴轉而沉迷在一本書中。看到我醒來，他對我望了望，臉色陰暗而困惑。
「你睡得很沉，」他說：「我還怕我們說話的聲音要把你吵醒了。」
我答道：「我什麼也沒有聽到，你得到什麼新的消息沒有？」
「不幸得很，還是沒有。我真沒有想到，所以很失望，我預計到這時候總該有確切的消息來了。維金斯剛剛來報告過，他說汽船一點兒蹤跡也沒有留下，真是叫人著急啊。因為時機緊迫了，每一個鐘頭都是要緊的。」
Save在這裡是介詞，表示「除了……之外」，後可接that引導的賓語從句，但that不可以省略。我們來看幾個例子：
No one, save perhaps his wife, knows where he is.
（除他妻子之外，沒有人知道他在哪兒。）
China eradicated polio in1994 and has since been entirely free of this disease, save for a single imported case in1999.
（中國早在1994年就消滅了脊髓灰質炎，除1999年發現的一例輸入性病例之外，中國已經完全沒有這種疾病。）
She knew nothing about him save that he was from Scotland.
（除了知道他是從蘇格蘭來的之外，她對他一無所知。）
There was not a sound save that from time to time a bird called.
（除了偶爾有兩聲鳥叫外，一點聲音也沒有。）