"I'm going to give you just half an hour, and at the end of that half-hour you've got to go to sleep." "I can't--I can't," she said scarcely above a whisper.

As though in response to an unspoken thought, he said casually: "I'm going to walk awhile when you've lain down, and then--" He pointed to a spot about twenty yards away.

"Do you see the two big stones there?
Well, when I've finished my walk and my talk with Aunty Primrose"-- he laughed up at the moon--"I'm going to sit down there and snooze till daylight." He pointed again: "Right over there beside those two rocks.

That's my bed.

Do you see ?" She did not reply at once, but a long sigh came from her lips.