So we'll have our _dejeuner_ here, breathing our own nice atmosphere, and eating and drinking what was grown on the soil of dear old Mother Earth.

It's a wee bit paralysing to think of, isn't it, dear?
Two hundred and forty thousand miles across the gulf of Space--and we sitting here at our breakfast table just as comfortable as though we were in the Cecil in London, or the Waldorf-Astoria in New York!" "There's nothing much in that, I mean as regards distance.

You see, before we've finished we shall probably, at least I hope we shall, be eating a breakfast or a dinner together a thousand million miles or more from New York or London.

Your Ladyship must remember that this is only the first stage on the journey, the jumping-off place as you called it.
You see the distance from Washington to New York is--well, it isn't even a hop, skip and a jump in comparison with----" "Oh yes, I see what you mean of course, and so I suppose I had better cut off or short-circuit such sympathies with Mother Earth as are not connected with your noble self, and get breakfast ready.

How's that ?" "Well," said Lord Redgrave, looking at her as she rose from the table, "I think our honeymoon in Space is young enough yet to make it possible for me to say that your Ladyship's opinion is exactly right." "That's a hopeless commonplace! Really, Lenox, I thought you were capable of something better than that." "My dear Zaidie, it has been my fate to have many friends who have had honeymoons on earth, and some of their experience seems to be that the man who contradicts his wife during the first six weeks of matrimony simply makes an ass of himself.