Part 3, Chapter 5: The Nuptial Flight

⁠​​​‌​​​​​‌​‌​‌​​​‌​‌​‌​​‌​‌‌​‌​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​​​⁠Yes; at last it was flight.

She now, too, was perched up on this structure that had tucked those little bicycle wheels and skids underneath it, as a bird tucks its no longer required feet; she, too, was being borne up aloft on those vast cambered pinions that let the sunlight half through, like the roof of a transparent marquee. In this new machine of Paul's, the passenger-seat was set on a slightl