What had happened was plain to me, for not two minutes before I had placed my little case on the table near the window, and the table, tilting up, had deposited it upon the floor on precisely the identical spot.

发生的事情对我来说很清楚，不到两分钟，我就把我的小箱子放在靠窗的桌子上，桌子向上倾斜，把它放在地板上的同一个地方。