As long as they don't suspect I am here we can talk safely." I tumbled out of bed on the far side, and went to waken the other two.
After a hurried consultation we decided my tent was the best for the interview, because of the light that had burned in it nearly always while I was so deathly ill.

We wrapped ourselves in blankets, and Fred went and shook Simba awake.
"Watch those Greeks!" he ordered him.

"If they show signs of life, come and give the alarm!" Then we set Lady Waldon's lantern on the ground in the back of my tent, closed the tent up, and foregathered.

There was one chair.

We three sat on the bed.
"Before we begin," said Fred, "we'd like some kind of proof, Lady Waldon, that your overture is honest! I've no need to labor the point.
Until now you have been our implacable enemy.