I do n't know where we are exactly , but we must be all of three miles from Kimballs ' still . '' `` Then we ca n't get there by five , for it 's half past four now , '' said Diana , with a despairing look at her watch . `` We 'll arrive after they have had their tea , and they 'll have all the bother of getting ours over again . '' `` We 'd better turn back and go home , '' suggested Anne humbly . But Diana , after consideration , vetoed this . `` No , we may as well go and spend the evening , since we have come this far . '' A few yards further on the girls came to a place where the road forked again . `` Which of these do we take ? '' asked Diana dubiously . Anne shook her head . `` I do n't know and we ca n't afford to make any more mistakes . Here is a gate and a lane leading right into the wood . There must be a house at the other side . Let us go down and inquire . '' `` What a romantic old lane this it , '' said Diana , as they walked along its twists and turns . It ran under patriarchal old firs whose branches met above , creating a perpetual gloom in which nothing except moss could grow . On either hand were brown wood floors , crossed here and there by fallen lances of sunlight . All was very still and remote , as if the world and the cares of the world were far away . `` I feel as if we were walking through an enchanted forest , '' said Anne in a hushed tone . `` Do you suppose we 'll ever find our way back to the real world again , Diana ?
We shall presently come XXXXX a palace with a spellbound princess in it , I think . ''
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