I believe if I wanted anything you'd know before I did, so go away and get those breathing-dresses ready.

I didn't come to the moon to talk commonplaces with a husband I've been married to for nearly three days." "Is it really as long as that ?" "Oh, don't be ridiculous, even if you are beyond the limits of earthly conventionalities.

Anyhow, I've been married long enough to want my own way, and just now I want a promenade on the moon." "The will of her Ladyship is a law unto her servant, and that which she hath said shall be done! If you come down on to the lower deck in ten minutes everything shall be ready." With this he disappeared down the companion-way.
About five minutes afterwards Andrew Murgatroyd showed his grizzled, long-bearded face with its high forehead, heavy brows, and broad-set eyes, long nose and shaven upper lip, just above the stairway and said, for all the world as though he might have been giving out the number of the hymn in his beloved Ebenezer at Smeaton: "If it pleases yer Ladyship, his Lordship is ready, and if you'll please come down I'll show you the way." "Oh, thank you, Mr.Murgatroyd!" said Zaidie, getting up and going towards the companion-way; "but I'm afraid you don't think that--I mean you don't seem to take very much interest----" "If your Ladyship will pardon me," said the old man, standing aside to let her go down, "it is not my business to think on board his Lordship's vessel.

I am his servant, and my fathers have been his fathers' servants for more years than I'd like to count.

If it wasn't that way I wouldn't be here.