We shall get down to La Grave to-morrow instead of to-day.

That is all." "Yes.

It will make no difference to our plans," said Shere Ali; and so far as their immediate plans were concerned Shere Ali was right.

But these two men had other and wider plans which embraced not a summer's holiday but a lifetime, plans which they jealously kept secret; and these plans, as it happened, the delay of a day in the hut upon the Meije was deeply to affect.
They turned back into the room and breakfasted.

Then Linforth lit his pipe and once more curled himself up in his rug upon the straw.