I unlocked the cupboard and got out a few stores, opened the windows of the bedroom next door, and flung my kaross on the cartel which did duty as bed.

Then I went out to find Laputa standing patiently in the sunshine.
I showed him the outhouse where I had said he might sleep.

It was the largest room in the store, but wholly unfurnished.

A pile of barrels and packing-cases stood in the corner, and there was enough sacking to make a sort of bed.
'I am going to make tea,' I said.

'If you have come far you would maybe like a cup ?' He thanked me, and I made a fire in the grate and put on the kettle to boil.