The family returned, and, suspecting nothing, all retired to sleep.
David had naturally a very affectionate heart.

He never had been from home before.

His lonely situation roused all the slumbering emotions of his childhood.

In describing this event, he writes: "I went to bed early that night, but sleep seemed to be a stranger to me.

For though I was a wild boy, yet I dearly loved my father and mother; and their images appeared to be so deeply fixed in my mind that I could not sleep for thinking of them.