CHAPTER VIII.
"THE BROWN BULL OF NORROWA." "Delicate, strong, and white, Hurrah for the magic thread! The warp and the woof come right." CHILD WORLD.
They were not to be surprised! Both the children remembered that, and yet it was a little difficult to avoid being so.
At first all they saw was just another white room, a small one, and with a curious pointed window in one corner.

But when the doors were fully opened there was more to be seen.

In the first place, at the opposite corner, was a second window exactly like the other, and in front of this window a spinning-wheel was placed, and before this spinning-wheel sat, on a white chair, a white-haired lady.
She was spinning busily.

She did not look up as the children came in.
She seemed quite absorbed in her work.

So the children stood and gazed at her, and the cats stood quietly in front, the right-hand one before Hugh, the left-hand one before Jeanne, not seeming, of course, the least surprised.