5. All the folkloreDespite the extreme heat, his hunger and the terror that had just overwhelmed him, Eugene recognised one of the girls. It was she who had brought him the amazing apples a few weeks previously and asked to be shown round the house. At the time, he hadn’t asked her name. The other girl looked much younger, although they were both of the same height.
The girl recognised him too. But he regained his presence of mind, succeeding in concealing the despair he had just succumbed to. He struck up a conversation with the girls just as if nothing had happened. But he confessed to being lost. Could the little ladies show him how to get back home?
“You townies never know how to follow our footpaths,” said the girl he knew, rather arrogantly, while the other one countered her remark
