"And you always live in that eyrie?"
"Oh no, we go away sometimes in the Mary Rose, our yacht."
"For holidays?"
"We went to the Himalayas last, and perched for the sunset view on Everest."
"I didn't think that even an aerial yacht could live up there."
"I could show the Queen some wonderful places if she would venture a trip in an etheric yacht."
"How I should like to see the world like that!" The Queen sighed. "I'm tied up, you know, and everything I do is most improper."
This, then, was the monster, the dragon of the Chancellor's fears, this simple-minded, plain-living merchant, whose pleasure was in the greater, wilder moods of Nature, who spoke so gently of a virago sister.
"Please tell me about the factories," she said.
"Must I talk of sympathetic vibratory physics?"