"I knew you couldn't go wrong in that narrow hole, but now you must
keep
by me, for here is a great wide place," she said.
"I can't understand it," said Curdie, half to himself, half to Irene.
"Never mind," she returned. "Wait till we get out."
Curdie, utterly astonished that she had already got so far, and by a
path he had known nothing of, thought it better to let her do as she
pleased.
"At all events," he said again to himself, "I know nothing about the
way, miner as I am; and she seems to think she does know something
about
it, though how she should, passes my comprehension. So she's just as
likely to find her way as I am, and as she insists on taking the lead, I
must follow. We can't be much worse off than we are, anyhow."
Reasoning thus, he followed her a few steps, and came out in another
great cavern, across which Irene walked in a straight line, as
confidently as if she knew every step of the way. Curdie went on after
her, flashing his torch about, and trying to see something of what lay
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