To enter it was to be immediately detected, if she turned, while the thicket itself permitted no passage.

I stood baffled and raging, and watched her pass along.

It seemed an age before she at last reached the end, and, turning sharply to the right, was in an instant gone from sight.
I waited then no longer.

I started off, and, running as lightly and quietly as I could, I sped down the green alley.

The sun shone into it, the trees kept off the wind, and between heat and haste I sweated finely.