And the things around them were just nothing.

They were walled in, too, by the nothingness all around them." Then the most unexpected of all things happened.

Ann smiled.

"Katie, I'd like to have seen you in that town!" "I'm afraid," said Katie, "that I would have invented a new kind of peg." The smile seemed to have done Ann good.

She sat down, grew more natural.
"When I try to tell about my life in that town I suppose it sounds as though I were making a terrible fuss about things.