he thought , if she gets anything from this picture i will be surprised , its over a hundred years old ! his gaze slid back up to her face , one eyebrow raised . one of the first things i did was to test how much weight it could support . 'our engineer is on his way , madam . 'most of us did n't get any sleep last night , and we should n't go down into the library without our wits about us . ' it was the only true open space . 