"When they are there, I can see a glimmer of light.

I cannot get my head in.

It is too narrow, but I hear as if I were with them." "How did you find this out ?" asked Aristarchi on the floor beside her, and reaching down into the dark space to explore it with his hand.

"It is deep," he continued, without waiting for an answer.

"There may be some passage by which one can get down." "Only a child could pass.