Its key I found. Behind, I found a sort of flexible portcullis of small bars of wood laid close together horizontally. After long search, and trying many ways to move it, I discovered at last a scarcely projecting point of steel on one side. It was only afterwards, however, that I took notice of her dress, although my surprise was by no means of so overpowering a degree as such an apparition might naturally be expected to excite. I am not going to argue with you, however, but to grant you a wish.
Form is much, but size is nothing.
It is a mere matter of relation. But size is There stood on the threshold a tiny woman-form of so little consequence with old me, that I may as well accommodate myself to your foolish prejudices. So saying, she leapt from the desk upon the floor, where she stood a tall, gracious lady, with pale face and large blue eyes. Page 18 flowed behind, wavy but uncurled, down to her waist, and against it her form stood clear in its robe of white. Now, to the point.