Before herself retiring she wanted to listen once more to the child's breathing.

Only the two new friends were still talking long after midnight.
They understood each other so thoroughly and upon all points that Bruno had proposed in his enthusiasm that they would not waste one minute of the night in sleep.

Salo expressed his wish over and over again that Bruno might become his comrade in the boarding school.

But finally victorious sleep stole unperceived over the two lads and quietly closed their eyes..