They made harbour in a wide bay about the middle of he afternoon and landed. It was a very different country om any they had yet seen. For when they had crossed the andy beach they found all silent and empty as if it were n uninhabited land， but before them there were level wns in which the grass was as smooth and short as it used o be in the grounds of a great English house where ten ardeners were kept. The trees， of which there were many， l stood well apart from one another， and there were no roken branches and no leaves lying on the ground. Pigeons ometimes cooed but there was no other noise.
Presently they came to a long， straight， sanded path with ot a weed growing on it and trees on either hand. Far ff at the other end of this avenue they now caught sight f a house.very long and grey and quietlooking in the fternoon sun.
Almost as soon as they entered this path Lucy noticed hat she had a little stone in her shoe. In that unknown lace it might have been wiser for her to ask the others to ait while she took it out. But she didn’t； she just droppedquietly behind and sat down to take off her shoe. Her lacehad got into a knot.
