7/34 Her husband read her thoughts and respected them. But a few minutes later he startled her out of her dream of home by exclaiming: "Good God, we're turning!" "What do you say, dear? Look! I'm afraid only a miracle can save us now, darling." She glanced to the left-hand side where he was pointing. The Sun, no longer now a sun, but a vast ocean of flame filling nearly a third of the vault of Space, was sinking beneath them. On the right Mercury was rising. |