It'll hae eneuch adu afore it mak the place warm; the cauld intil this room's no a coamon ane.

There's something by ord'nar intil 't." Cosmo could no longer endure having the great, old, hearse-like bed between him and Aggie.

With a shiver in the very middle of his body, he hastened to the other side: there lay the country of air, and fire, and safe earthly homeliness: the side he left was the dank region of the unknown, whose march-ditch was the grave.
They hurried with the rest of their work.

Aggie insisted on being at the farther side of the bed when they made it.

Not another word was spoken between them, till they were safe from the room, and had closed its door behind them.
They went up to Cosmo's room, to make it something fitter for a lady's bower.