"You would never know who was coming round the rocks, or who was hiding; and robbers could come behind you and catch you, and you wouldn't be able to see or hear them until they were right on you; and you might scream and scream with all your might and main and no one would hear you." "If I sneered at giants, I wouldn't talk of robbers if I were you," said Dan severely.

"Imagine robbers coming to a place like this! Why, there's nothing and nobody to rob." "They would come here to hide, of course, not to rob," said Anna crushingly, and Dan felt rather small.
Betty and Tony began to feel bored.
"I am going to get sticks for the fire," said Betty.

"Come along, Tony.
You others can come, too, if you like." "Betty is beginning to think of her tea already," laughed Dan, but they all joined her in her search--not that there was any need to search, for dry sticks and furze bushes lay all around them in profusion.
"Oh, here's the cromlech," cried Kitty, coming suddenly on the great rock, which was poised so lightly on top of other great rocks that it would sway under the lightest touch, yet had remained unmoved by all the storms and hurricanes of the ages that had passed over it.

She ran lightly up and on to it, and stood there swaying gently, the breeze fluttering out her skirts and flushing her cheeks.
"You must make a wish while you are standing on it, and then if you can make the rock move you will get your wish," explained Betty to Anna.
"It isn't every one who can.

I don't suppose you could, 'cause you don't believe in things like we do." Nevertheless Anna was bent on trying, and grew quite cross because the rock would not move for her.