"Nothing to hinder what we shall do together." He was the more emotional of the two.

The dreams to which they had given utterance had uplifted him.
"That's all right," said Linforth, and he turned back into the hut.

But he remembered afterwards that it was Shere Ali who had protested against the possibility of their association being broken.
They came out from the hut again at half-past three in the morning and looked up to a cloudless starlit sky which faded in the east to the colour of pearl.

Above their heads some knobs of rock stood out upon the thin crest of the buttress against the sky.

In the darkness of a small couloir underneath the knobs Peter was already ascending.