They were furnished with slippers and such dry garments as the house or their own bundles afforded, and ensconcing themselves, as Mr Codlin had already done, in the warm chimney-corner, soon forgot their late troubles or only remembered them as enhancing the delights of the present time.

Overpowered by the warmth and comfort and the fatigue they had undergone, Nelly and the old man had not long taken their seats here, when they fell asleep.
'Who are they ?' whispered the landlord.

Short shook his head, and wished he knew himself.

'Don't you know ?' asked the host, turning to Mr Codlin.

'Not I,' he replied.