(...) she stayed out in the wild mid-ocean, and said that it was precisely this that was the loveliest – she could see many miles around her on all sides, and the sky above was like a great bell-jar. She had seen ships, but far off, they looked like gulls, the amusing dolphins had turned somersaults, and the huge whales had spouted water up out of their blowholes, so it had looked like hundreds of fountains around her.”