"From where I am I can see that the water gets wider again a little farther on.

And the rocks come quite sharp down to the side.

There is nowhere we could clamber on to, and I dare say the water is very deep.

There are lots of little streams trickling into it from the rocks, and the boat could go quite well if we could but get it a little farther." "But we can't," said Hugh; "it just won't go." "Oh dear," said Jeanne, "we'll have to go back.

But how should we find the door in the hillside to go up the stair; or if we did get up, how should we push away the stone?
And even then, there would be the forest to go through, and perhaps we couldn't find our way among the trees as Houpet did.