It would make the fool of a film a three-fold millionaire--but it would leave a great scientist or a noble thinker to starve.

No, no! Let It swing on its own round--I shall not enlighten it!" She walked on, gathering a flower here and there, and he kept pace beside her.
"The men who are working here"-- he at last ventured to say--"are deeply interested.

You can hardly expect them not to talk among each other and in the outside clubs and meeting-places of the wonderful mechanism on which they have been engaged.

They have been at it now steadily for fifteen months." "Do I not know it ?" And she turned her head to him, smiling, "Have I not paid their salaries regularly ?--and yours?
I do not care how they talk or where,--they have built the White Eagle, but they cannot make her fly!--not without ME! You were as brave as I thought you would be when you decided to fly alone, trusting to the means I gave you and which I alone can give!" She broke off and was silent for a moment, then laying her hand lightly on his arm, she added-- "I thank you for your confidence in me! As I have said, you were brave!--you must have felt that you risked your life on a chance!--nevertheless, for once, you allowed yourself to believe in a woman!" "Not only for once but for always would I so believe!--in SUCH a woman--if she would permit me!" he answered in a low tone of intense passion.

She smiled.
"Ah! The old story! My dear Marchese, do not fret your intellectual perception uselessly! Think what we have in store for us!--such wonders as none have yet explored,--the mysteries of the high and the low--the light and the dark--and in those far-off spaces strewn with stars, we may even hear things that no mortal has yet heard--" "And what is the use of it all ?" he suddenly demanded.
She opened her deep blue eyes in amaze.
"The use of it ?...