The colour left her face.

"I did not know," she said.

"Do you mean-- ?" He waited for her.
"Do you mean there are other--giants ?" He repeated, "Did you not know ?" And she answered, with the growing amazement of realisation, "_No!_" The whole world and all the meaning of the world was changing for her.

A branch of chestnut slipped from her hand.

"Do you mean to say," she repeated stupidly, "that there are other giants in the world?
That some food-- ?" He caught her amazement.
"You know nothing ?" he cried.