They were of different sizes, and some had their mahouts or palanquins on their backs.

Some were much bigger than the others and some were so tiny that they seemed only babies.

Mary had seen carved ivory in India and she knew all about elephants.

She opened the door of the cabinet and stood on a footstool and played with these for quite a long time.

When she got tired she set the elephants in order and shut the door of the cabinet.
In all her wanderings through the long corridors and the empty rooms, she had seen nothing alive; but in this room she saw something.