Surely you see what I mean, I needn't put it plainer, need I ?" Their eyes met, and he read her meaning in hers.

He put his arm up over her shoulder and drew her down towards him.

Their lips met, and then he got up and went down to the engine-room.
A couple of minutes later the _Astronef_ sprang upwards from the midst of the delightful valley in which she was resting.

No lights were shown.
In five minutes she had passed through the cloud-veil, and the next morning when their new friends came to visit them and found that they had vanished back into Space, there was sorrow for the first time among the sons and daughters of the Love-Star..