She soon returned with food, but I could not eat.

She almost compelled me to swallow some wine, when I revived sufficiently to be able to answer some of her questions.

I told her the whole story.
"It is just as I feared," she said; "but you are now for the night beyond the reach of any of these dreadful creatures.

It is no wonder they could delude a child like you.

But I must beg you, when my husband comes in, not to say a word about these things; for he thinks me even half crazy for believing anything of the sort.