25 Chapters
“I don't know,” said Sylvie. “Hush! I must think. I could go to him, by myself, well enough. But I want you to come too.” “Let me go with you,” I pleaded. “I can walk as fast as you can, I'…
“Let us lapse back again,” said Lady Muriel. “Take another cup of tea? I hope that's sound common sense?” “And all that strange adventure,” I thought, “has occupied the space of a single comma …
As I entered the little town, I came upon two of the fishermen's wives interchanging that last word “which never was the last”: and it occurred to me, as an experiment with the Magic Watch, to w…
And so it came to pass that, just a week after the day when my Fairy-friends first appeared as Children, I found myself taking a farewell-stroll through the wood, in the hope of meeting them once mor…
“It's just a week,” I said, three days later, to Arthur, “since we heard of Lady Muriel's engagement. I think I ought to call, at any rate, and offer my congratulations. Won't you come…