Keltry threw a startled glance at Dynamon's long, brown legs. "Why, not at all," she said quietly. "We are dressed like everyone else on Earth at the present time. Modesty with us, nowadays, is something much more important than lengths of cloth." The little woman kept her hands before her eyes and shook her head vigorously. "It's immodest," she insisted, "and you must put on your clothes at once. Don't you realize that I'm the queen?" Reluctantly, Keltry and Dynamon stepped back into their heavy cloaks and zipped them up the front. "Well! that's better," said the little queen primly. "My goodness," she said with a slight glance, "is everybody on Earth as big and brown as you two?" "We're about average, I should say," Keltry answered with a smile. "And seriously, we didn't mean to offend you in the matter of clothes." "Well we, on Saturn," said the little queen, "don't believe in indecent exposure. Now, you say you came in some kind of a carrier?" "Yes," said Dynamon. "It's up on the surface. We were exploring in the darkness and fell down the long shaft." "Why weren't you killed?" said the queen, blue eyes wide. Dynamon explained the counter-gravity helmets. It took considerable explanation, because the queen was inclined to disbelieve the whole story. She finally accepted it, however, and then launched into a long series of questions about the Cosmos Carrier and about the state of the Earth. Eventually Dynamon found an opening and started asking questions on his part. "We're anxious to know about you and your people on Saturn," he suggested. "Have you a name or are you addressed only as Queen?" "I am Queen Diana," the little woman stated. "The last of my line. I am a Bolton, and the Boltons have been rulers of Saturn ever since we came here." "Bolton!" Dynamon shouted. "Are you a descendant of Leonard Bolton?" "Yes!" replied the queen, with a delighted smile. "Do they still remember Leonard Bolton on Earth?" "We know that he designed a contrivance called a 'space ship', but that's all. Did he actually build such a ship, and is that how you come to be here so many thousands of miles from Earth?" "Yes," said Queen Diana, proudly. "It's all down in some books which I will show you. Leonard Bolton built a space ship which was big enough to hold ten families and their belongings. There was a terrible war going on and he thought the only place to find safety was another planet. So the 'space ship' left the Earth by means of a thing called a 'rocket,' whatever that is. And they wandered around for years in space till they finally came into Saturn's orbit, and the tremendous gravity pulled the ship right through the light outer crust into this Nether World. I don't know how many years ago that was, but we have been here ever since."