Mione goes down on her knees at the verge with a lantern and pushes her hand into the bottom of the hedge, which is the only part of a maze that cannot lie.

MioneThe bottom is clipped. Not the sides, the bottom. Somebody has been under this hedge with a hook and a light and cut the skirts off it.

CorvinaWhy would anybody cut the bottom of a hedge?

MioneSo he can get under it. Hedge that is clear at the base is hedge you can crawl through. He has not been walking the maze. He has been going under it.