the maid will be frightened of me . `` i hate to ask , but are you certain there was n't another man ? '' i dont care that i have checked them hundreds , no , thousands of times . there 's a brief flash of disappointment : everything is the same-trees and boulders and the trail-but then lucy realizes that it 's not at all like the shore they just left . there were other problems , as well . she closed the book , threw it back onto the pile . 