The light's going down.

Begin dropping a bit.

Don't start the propellers, but just go and see that the guns are all right in case of accidents." The old engineer nodded and went back to his engines, looking considerably scared.

As he spoke the brilliancy of the light faded rapidly, and the _Astronef_ began to sink slowly towards the surface.
As a precaution against their being allowed to drop with force enough to cause a disaster, Redgrave turned the R.Force on again and they fell slowly towards the plain, through what seemed like a halo of perfectly white light.

When she was within a couple of hundred yards of the ground a winged car of exquisitely graceful shape rose from the roof of one of the huge glass buildings nearest to them, flew swiftly towards them, and after circling once round the dome of the upper deck, ran close alongside.
The car was occupied by two figures of distinctly human form but rather more than human stature.