'I must follow her, though, and see that she comes to no harm.

She will soon find she can't get out that way, and then she will come with me.' So he crept over the slab once more into the hole with his torch in his hand.

But when he looked about in it, he could see her nowhere.

And now he discovered that although the hole was narrow, it was much longer than he had supposed; for in one direction the roof came down very low, and the hole went off in a narrow passage, of which he could not see the end.

The princess must have crept in there.