A broad band of metal looking like light gold passed round the upper part of his forehead, and from under this the hair fell in gentle waves to below his shoulders.
For a few moments Zaidie and Redgrave stared about them in frank and silent wonder.

They were standing in a broad street running in a straight line to what seemed to be several miles along the edge of a city of crystal.

It was lined with double rows of trees with beds of brilliantly coloured flowers between them.

From this street others went off at right angles and at regular intervals.

The roof of the city appeared to be composed of an infinity of domes of enormous extent, supported by tall clusters of slender pillars standing at the street corners.