Then she looked wildly about her, gave a great cry, and said: 'We've taken the wrong turning somewhere, and I don't know where we are.

We are lost, lost!' The terror she was in had quite bewildered her.

It was true enough they had lost the way.

They had been running down into a little valley in which there was no house to be seen.
Now Irene did not know what good reason there was for her nurse's terror, for the servants had all strict orders never to mention the goblins to her, but it was very discomposing to see her nurse in such a fright.

Before, however, she had time to grow thoroughly alarmed like her, she heard the sound of whistling, and that revived her.