I will keep over to my side.

There is plenty of room in the bed for the two of us." As he spoke I heard a movement of the bedclothes as Grim pinched Jeremy awake again.

I answered before Jeremy could horn in.
"Hic! You 'spect me 'nto bed full o' snakes?
Never sleep 'slong as venomous reptiles waiting! Hic! You stay 'n bed an keep 'em 'way from me!" Well, Jeremy didn't want any better cue than that.

He got up, lit the candle and explained to me with great wealth of Arabic theosophy that the snakes I saw were mere delusions because Allah never made them; and I tried to look utterly drunk, staring at him with dropped jaw and droopy eyelids, knocking an empty bottle over with my elbow by way of calling attention to it.
"Get into bed, effendi," Jeremy advised me, feeding the cue back, since I was in the middle of the stage.
"Not into that bed!" I answered, shaking my head solemnly.

"That f'ler put snakes in on purpose.