"By the way," he went on, "I may remind your Ladyship that you are just now drawing the last breaths of earthly air which you will taste for some time, in fact until we get back.

And you may as well take your last look at earth as earth, for the next time you see it it will be a planet." She turned to the open window and looked over into the enormous void beneath, for all this time the _Astronef_ had been mounting swiftly towards the zenith.
She could see, by the growing moonlight, vast, vague shapes of land and sea.

The myriad lights of New York and Brooklyn were mingled in a tiny patch of dimly luminous haze.

The air about her had suddenly grown bitterly cold, and she saw that the stars and planets were shining with a brilliancy she had never seen before.

Redgrave came back to her, and laying his arm across her shoulder, said: "Well, have you said goodbye to your native world?
It is a bit solemn, isn't it, saying goodbye to a world that you have been born on; which contains everything that has made up your life, everything that is dear to you ?" "Not quite everything," she said, looking up at him--"at least I don't think so." He lost no time in making the only reply which was appropriate under the circumstances; and then he said, drawing her close to him: "Nor I, as _you_ know, darling.