There was an astonishment,
a feeling of confirmation. 'Of course these things do happen
sometimes,' I told myself. I don't remember that Challoner looked
round or said anything at all. I am not sure that I looked at
him. . . .
"There seemed to be a long interval of intensely excited curiosity,
and I remember thinking, 'Lord, but we shall come a smash in a
minute!' Far ahead I saw the grey sheds of Eastchurch and people
strolling about apparently unaware of our disaster. There was a
sudden silence as Challoner stopped the engine. . . .
"But the point I want to insist upon is that I did not feel afraid.
I was simply enormously, terribly INTERESTED. . . .
"There came a tremendous jolt and a lunge, and we were both tipped
forward, so that we were hanging forehead down by our straps, and it
looked as if the sheds were in the sky, then I saw nothing but sky,
then came another vast swerve, and we were falling sideways,
sideways. . . .
"I was altogether out of breath and PHYSICALLY astonished, and I
remember noting quite intelligently as we hit the ground how the
green grass had an effect of POURING OUT in every direction from
below us.
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