The packs containing the baggage of the girls and the supplies and bedding were placed under this shelter.
Helen thought this might have taken five minutes more.

In this short space of time the fire had leaped and flamed until it was huge and hot.
Rain was falling steadily all around, but over and near that roaring blaze, ten feet high, no water fell.

It evaporated.

The ground began to steam and to dry.

Helen suffered at first while the heat was driving out the cold.