Not a single star was out.

She could not even tell in what direction the house lay, and between her and home she fancied the dreadful creature lying ready to pounce upon her.

She saw now that she ought to have run up the stairs at once.

It was well she did not scream; for, although very few of the goblins had come out for weeks, a stray idler or two might have heard her.

She sat down upon a stone, and nobody but one who had done something wrong could have been more miserable.