Saw away the succulent part of last year's growth, and bring it here." Welch got up slowly.
"I'll go with you, Mr.Welch," said Miss Rolleston.
She will not be alone with me for a moment, if she can help it, thought Hazel, and sat moody by the fire.

But he shook off his sadness, and forced on a cheerful look the moment they came back.

They brought with them a vegetable very like the heart of a cabbage, only longer and whiter.
"There," said Welch, "what d'ye call that ?" "The last year's growth of the palm," said Hazel calmly.
This vegetable was cut in two and put into the pots.
"There, take the toasting-fork again," said Hazel to Welch, and drew out from his net three huge scallop shells.

"Soup-plates," said he, and washed them in the running stream, then put them before the fire to dry.
While the fish and vegetable were cooking, he went and cut off some of the leafy, piunuated branches of the palm-tree, and fastened them horizontally above the strips of canvas.

Each palm branch traversed a whole side of the bower.