There's no harm my asking that ?" "No," said the cuckoo.

"I'm going on immediately, and I'm going to take you where you wanted to go to, only you must shut your eyes again, and lie perfectly still without talking, for I must put on steam--a good deal of steam--and I can't talk to you.

Are you all right ?" "All right," said Griselda.
She had hardly said the words when she seemed to fall asleep.

The rushing sound in the air all round her increased so greatly that she was conscious of nothing else.

For a moment or two she tried to remember where she was, and where she was going, but it was useless.