Chapter Seventeen
The Room with a View
“A room with a view is worth two in a basement.”—Operator One
Hilda burst into the room with a view on her flying platform. “Stop what you’re doing,” she shouted.
The Operators looked up.
They weren’t doing anything apart from wondering what they were supposed to be doing. Once Hilda had installed the Operators in the room with the view with her infamous platform-descending meeting (now out of action for servicing), they had heard nothing.
The Operators had spent nights in the room with a view in a state of suspended confusion, wondering.
Apart from the third in command, who, having discovered the voice-operated curtains, was still having a ball.
The flying platform filled the room with a low hum as Hilda entered the room. The Operators stared
