Having my mind full of this, and not being able to sleep, I strayed away from her, and returned in a few minutes, as I think, to the place where I had left her, but could not find her.

I could not be sure about the place.

One bit of the forest is so much like another,--just the same thing over and over again,--that I could not feel quite sure of the spot.

I still think I went back to the right place; but there she was not.

Then I searched the wood all round, far and near, for, I should think, a couple of hours or more.