[A Honeymoon in Space by George Griffith]@TWC D-Link bookA Honeymoon in Space CHAPTER XVII 8/16
In a few minutes neither you, nor I, nor anything else will have any weight.
We shall be just between the attraction of the rings and Saturn, so you'd better go and sit down, for if you were to give a bit of an extra spring in walking you might be knocking that pretty head of yours against the roof," said Redgrave, as he went to turn the R. Force on to the edge of the rings. A vast sea of silver cloud seemed now to descend upon them.
Then they entered it, and for nearly half an hour the _Astronef_ was totally enveloped in a sea of pearl-grey luminous mist. "Atmosphere!" said Redgrave, as he went to the conning-tower and signalled to Murgatroyd to start the propellers.
They continued to rise and the mist began to drift past them in patches, showing that the propellers were driving them ahead. They now rose swiftly towards the surface of the planet.
The cloud-wrack got thinner and thinner, and presently they found themselves floating in a clear atmosphere between two seas of cloud, the one above them being much less dense than the one below. "I believe we shall see Saturn on the other side of that," said Zaidie, looking up at it.
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