Yes, it was Jack, after all. In the dark, she had slipped, dropping the tea and launching the saucer into space, but, despite all this, even though the cup of tea had spilt over his lap, Jack smiled when the saucer landed on the moon.
Of course, being a keen follower of world events and a junior ornithologist (two ravens and bar), she realised that the noise was merely a barn owl and that the moon, whilst displaced from its old orbit, still circled the Earth (albeit in much closer proximity) and that according to Carl Sagan the residual dust occasioned by the Lunic War would take mere days to disperse into interplanetary space courtesy of the stellar wind.
As Jack stood up Little Red Riding Hood saw the lipstick mark on his collar. Was he seeing Cinderella again after all his promises? She grabbed his hand and pulled him onto the path.