"
"Seventy thousand miles away from home already, and we only started a
couple of hours ago!" Zaidie found the idea a trifle terrifying, and
finished her meal almost in silence. When she got up she was not a
little disconcerted when the effort she made not only took her off her
chair but off her feet as well. She rose into the air nearly to the
surface of the table.
"Sakes!" she said, "this is getting quite a little embarrassing; I shall
be hitting my head against the roof next."
"Oh, you'll soon get used to it," he laughed, pulling her down on to her
feet by the skirt of her dress; "always remember to exert very little
strength in everything you do, and don't forget to do everything very
slowly."
When the coffee was made he carried the apparatus up into the
deck-chamber. Then he came back and said:
"You'd better wrap yourself up warmly. It's a good deal colder up there
than it is here."
When she reached the deck and took a first glance about her, Zaidie
seemed suddenly to lapse into a state of somnambulism.
The whole heavens above and around were strewn with thick clusters of
stars which she had never seen before. The stars she remembered seeing
from the earth were only pin-points in the darkness compared with the
myriads of blazing orbs which were now shooting their rays across the
black void of Space.
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