when i opened myself to get an impression the stream of people who had been in and out of this room in the past two months blurred together , but while riding in aldwin 's coach i had become finely attuned to his impression so i walked around the table , found aldwin 's place and sat in it , which helped to cut through the chaotic haze of irrelevant images , but all i could tell was that aldwin had eaten here many times .