“That’s what you were talking about, weren’t you? Mr. Galileo’s theory that the Earth moves about the sun, and the disgraceful way he was imprisoned by the pope, and Mr. Newton’s discovery of gravity, and then you asked why the Earth didn’t fall into the sun and I answered that it was because of the momentum the Earth has as it orbits the sun. At least,” she faltered, “I believe that is what Mr. Kepler wrote.”