But her great toe could not go into it, and the shoe was altogether much too small for her.

Things are nice as it is," she said to herself, and she began walking up and down the room, not stepping simply on the resounding parquet but treading with each step from the heel to the toe (she had on a new and favorite pair of shoes) and listening to the regular tap of the heel and creak of the toe as gladly as she had to the sounds of her own voice.

The foot in the boot with a hole in it had already grown numb, and he could no longer feel his big toe.