At the surface of Mars, for instance, the gravity is only one third that at our own surface, at the moon one-sixth, and in the singular little planetules grouped between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, probably not more than one-twentieth.

Ah, she has caught the disease egoitis in a virulent form from her husband who was once a commercial traveller, Gastineau commented.

Oh dear! You don't even understand the basics do you? How embarrassment.

The poor colonel went out of the room with a hangdog look.