Were they going on forever? Was it a reality or a horrible nightmare? "We are almost at our journey's end," said the man, soothingly.
"Come, cheer up, Cricket.
I love you, and I won't hurt a hair of your head." "Where are we ?" Mollie faintly asked. "Rattling over a beastly country road," answered her companion, "under a sky as black as Erebus, and in a down-pour that threatens a second flood.
There's the sea.
We're down by the sad sea waves now, Mollie." Mollie listened.