Believe me, I am.

However--go on, Ruth." "At the end of the second week," she said, "we knew we were lost.

We were deep in the heart of the range.

All around us was a forest of enormous, snow-topped peaks.

The gorges, the canyons, the valleys that we tried led us east and west, north and south.
"It was a maze, and in it we seemed to be going ever deeper.