Roberts: “And the long and short of it is, Willis, that we don’t know how to get them out, and we wish you would suggest some way.”
Lawton: “There’s been a great tacit confidence among us in your executive ability and your inventive genius.”
Mrs. Roberts: “Oh, yes, we know you can do it.”
Mrs. Miller: “If you can’t, nothing can save them.”
Campbell, going to the grating: “Miller!”
Campbell: “Start her up!”
Miller: “Now, look here, Campbell, we are not going to stand that; we’ve had enough of it. I speak for the whole elevator. Don’t you suppose that if it had been possible to start her up we”—
Mrs. Curwen: “We shouldn’t have been at the moon by this time.”
Campbell: “Well, then, start her down!”