we went across the fields, intending to skirt the woods at the back of uncle alec's farm and find a lane that cut through uncle roger's woods; but before we came to it we stumbled on a sly, winding little path quite by accident -- if, indeed, there can be such a thing as accident in the woods, where i am tempted to think we are led by the good people along such of their fairy ways as they have a mind for us to walk in.