He looked at her for an instant and then turned his head away with a jerk, and sent down the last signal.
The whole energy of the engines was now directing the maximum of the R.
Force against the surface of Jupiter, but still, as every moment passed in a speechless agony of apprehension, it grew nearer and nearer.

The fire-waves mounted higher and higher, the roar of the fiery surges grew louder and louder.

Then in a momentary lull, he put his arm round her, drew her close up to him and kissed her and said: "That's all we can do, dear.

We've come too close and he's too strong for us." She returned his kiss and said quite steadily: "Well, at any rate, I'm with you, and it won't last long, will it ?" "Not very long now, I'm afraid," he said between his clenched teeth.

And then he pulled her close to him again, and together they looked down into the storm-tossed hell towards which they were falling at the rate of nearly a hundred miles a minute.
Almost the next moment they felt a little jerk beneath their feet--a jerk upwards; and Redgrave shook himself out of the half stupor into which he was falling and said: "Hullo, what's that?
I believe we're stopping--yes, we are--and we're beginning to rise, too.