He smiled. "Curious as always, little sister? It was that the giant was
in the act of becoming _smaller_! The gnomes were growing in size!" He
checked our chorus of exclamations.
"I will tell you now: This giant--these gnomes--were three beings who
did not belong to the girl's world. They had come there from a greater
world outside the atom. By means of science--such means possibly as we
now were using with the vehicle--they had diminished their stature to
the infinitely small. Had gone down and down into their tiny atom, to
come upon the girl and her realm."