You might have come inside.

A little room was left on the floor there." "I never had a better bed and I never slept better." The general smiled again and gave Harry an approving glance.
"Soldiers, especially boys, learn quickly to endure any kind of hardship," he said.

"Come, we'll see if the enemy is still there." Harry fancied from his tone that he believed Milroy gone, but knowing better than to offer any opinion of his own he followed him toward the edge of the valley.

The pickets saluted as the silent figures passed.
The sun in the east was rising higher over the valley, and in the west the peaks and ridges were coming out of the dusk.
The general carried his glasses slung over his shoulder, but he did not need them.

One glance into the valley and they saw that the army of Milroy was gone.