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impossible.
"
At first we should take food," said Denton. "We could carry food for
ten or twelve days." It was an age of compact artificial nourishment,
and such a provision had none of the unwieldy suggestion it would have
had in the nineteenth century.
"But--until our house," she asked--"until it was ready, where should we
sleep?"
"
"
"
It is summer."
But ... What do you mean?"
There was a time when there were no houses in the world; when all
mankind slept always in the open air."
"But for us! The emptiness! No walls--no ceiling!"
"Dear," he said, "in London you have many beautiful ceilings. Artists
paint them and stud them with lights. But I have seen a ceiling more
beautiful than any in London...."
"But where?"
"It is the ceiling under which we two would be alone...."
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