So, we clung to her boy and followed.

A cabman passed leading his horse with one of his lamps in his other hand and I turned for an instant to speak to him and Ethel and her friends disappeared exactly as though the earth had opened.

So, I yelled after them, and Ethel said "Here, I am," at my elbow.

It was like the chesire cat that kept appearing and disappearing until he made Alice dizzy.

We finally found a link-boy and he finally found the McCarthy's house, and I left them giving Ethel quinine and whiskey.