"I say, I've got a notion.

I vote we take up our quarters here--during the day, I mean.

Of course we shall have to sleep in camp, but we might eat here, you know, and you could sit here all day; it would be as safe as a church, for those Boers will never try to storm the town, I am sure of that." Jess reflected, and soon came to the conclusion that it would be a charming plan.

Accordingly, next day she set to work and made the place as clean and tidy as circumstances would allow, and they commenced house-keeping.
The upshot of this arrangement was that they were thrown more together even than before.

Meanwhile the siege dragged its slow length along.