Now, if you will take advice, you and Miss Marmion will go into shelter, for it will begin to blow soon." Behind the wheel-house was an observation room, as it would be called in the States, running nearly the whole length of the bridge, and fronted with thick plate glass.

They went in, and Oscarovitch turned the pointer to half-speed.

There was no increase in vibration, but the shore began to slip away behind them faster and faster, and the northern suburbs of Copenhagen rose ahead and fell astern as though they were part of a swiftly moving panorama.

Then the pointer went down to full speed, and the Prince, after a word to the quartermaster, joined them in the bridge-house and closed the door.
"You will need all your eyes to see much of the shore now," he said; "I have given her her wings." Nitocris felt a shudder in the carpeted floor.

Looking ahead she saw the bow lift slightly.