"For the next night, strange to say, she wakened again in the same sudden way. And again the moonlight was shining right on the curtains, and this time Lena felt more sure than the night before, that something was moving about among the leaves and flowers and branches that seemed to stand out so brightly. "'Oh dear,' she thought to herself, 'I _do_ wish I could creep up quite quietly and see if it is one of those monkeys that has got loose. Oh please, Mr. Monkey, if you are a fairy, _do_ come down and fetch me,' she added, laughing. "But her laughter stopped suddenly. Almost as she said the words the most curious sound reached her ears--at first it seemed like the buzzing of lots and lots of flies, bluebottles, midges, bees, cockchafers--every sort of creature of the kind, so that Lena started up in a fright. But no--no flies of any sort were to be seen, but nearer and nearer, louder and louder came the sound, till at last it grew into a sort of chant, as if a great number of little feet were stepping along together, and a great number of little buzzing voices singing in time to them. And glancing up at the curtains Lena plainly saw a whole quantity of tiny brown figures stepping--you couldn't call it sliding, they moved too regularly--downwards in the direction of her face. And if she had looked closer, she would have seen that every place in the pattern where the wee brown faces peeped out was empty! The monkeys had come to fetch her! Where to? "That I must try to tell you--but as to how she got there, that is a different matter. She never knew it herself, so how could any one else know it? All I can tell you is this--she found herself standing in front of a little house--a pretty little house, something like the carved Swiss cottages that your mamma has in the library--there was a garden all round it, thick trees and bushes at the sides, and as Lena suddenly, as it were, seemed to awake to find herself there, she heard at the same moment a sort of scuttling all about her, just as if a lot of hares or rabbits had taken flight. And when she quickly turned round to look, she saw disappearing among the shrubs ever so many--_quantities_ of pairs of little brown legs and feet--the bodies and heads belonging to them being already hidden in the green.