Kuno urges her to take the airship-a two-day journey to see him on the other side of the world-but Vashti does not want to travel. Kuno’s face appears he wants to speak to his mother in person instead of through the Machine.
She is happy to hear from her son Kuno but is impatient because he is slow to respond and she has to give a lecture in five minutes about “Music during the Australian Period” (1).
Her chair, which “like the music, was worked by machinery” (1), takes her to the other side of the room to answer the call. A small, pale woman named Vashti is listening to music and becomes annoyed when a bell rings-she knows thousands of people and is interrupted often. “Part One: The Airship” begins in “a small room, hexagonal in shape, like the cell of a bee” (1).
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