The power?
Yes, keep it on full till I have taken the bearings." "Ay, my Lord, very good," replied the engineer.
As he left the deck Redgrave put his arm round Zaidie and drew her gently towards him and said, "Zaidie, truly you are favoured among women! You have seen the beginning of a new creation.

You will certainly be saved somehow after that." "Yes, and you too, dear," she murmured, as though still half-dreaming.
"It is very glorious and wonderful; but what is it all--I mean, what is the explanation of it ?" "The merely scientific explanation, dear, is very simple.

I see it all now.

The force that was dragging us out of our course was the united pull of two dead stars approaching each other in the same orbit.

They may have been doing that for millions of years.