The air was cold and my hands numbed, but I never felt them.

As we throbbed and tore southward, sometimes bumping in eddies, sometimes swimming evenly in a stream of motionless ether, my head and heart grew as light as a boy's.

I forgot all about the vexations of my job and saw only its joyful comedy.

I didn't think that anything on earth could worry me again.

Far to the left was a wedge of silver and beside it a cluster of toy houses.