Part 2, Chapter 10: Leslie, on "the Motley of Mars"

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌​​‌​‌‌​​‌​​‌​‌‌‌‌‌‌​‌‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌​‌‌‌‌‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​⁠Now, as it happened, Miss Leslie Long did not choose to wait for her invitation to the Aircraft Works. Unasked and unexpected, she turned up there the very next Saturday afternoon.

She was given a chair in that spacious, white, characteristically-scented room where Mrs. Crewe and Gwenna were again busy with the wings. She was told not to expect either of them to stop work to look at her, but to go